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Racist attack victim speaks out and demands fans are punished

The victim of the racist attack by Chelsea fans in Paris called yesterday for those involved to be “found, punished and locked up.”

French newspaper Le Parisien revealed his name to be Souleymane S, who said that he couldn’t bare to tell his wife and children that he had been racially abused on the train home on Tuesday evening.

The travelling Blues fans, in France for the Champions League match against Paris St Germain that night, were filmed preventing Souleymane from boarding a Paris Metro train home and chanted: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it.”

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