The Fiorentina fan who aimed racist abuse at Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly has been banned from stadiums for five years.
The incident occurred three weeks ago, after the final whistle of Napoli’s Serie A victory at the Stadio Franchi.
An investigation managed to identify the Fiorentina supporter.
Koulibaly didn’t sleep for two nights after receiving racial abuse
He has now received a five-year ban from stadiums as punishment for hurling racist insults, a banning order known as a Daspo.
The FIGC also held its own investigation and the results of that are expected next week, according to La Repubblica newspaper.
Fiorentina have done everything possible to identify and ban the perpetrator, so they hope not to receive further disciplinary action.
Meanwhile, a group of Empoli ultras have also received banning orders after they attempted to attack Venezia fans with baseball bats on September 11.
There is a three-year ban for four of them, though two supporters had previous Daspo orders, so received a five-year and eight-year ban.
Not severe enough. Just like the guy in england who racially abused england players online and got a suspended sentence, and money deducted from his benefits.
He was on benefits?😅
I’d very much doubt if the sentence would be the same had it been Danilo,Cuadrado, Maignan, ballo-Touré, or Dumfries being abused.
By taking such a lenient sentence, the disgustingly corrupt Italian establishment is giving a strong message to this guy that after 5 years he can still come back to stadia to abuse black players, towards whom he surely must have an inferiority complex.
Way too lenient, pathetic… I think the fans should step up and say something to these clowns during matches.
I saw it myself during a Premier league game where supporters rejected profanities being shouted by a supporter, on the basis of there kids being in attendance.
Racist chanting is far worse