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A departmental level meeting was agreed on December 15 in Hérault. The captain of the visiting team complains about racist remarks from local supporters.
Hérault football had a turbulent end to the year. And we’re not talking about the agitation around Montpellier HSC, dead last in Ligue 1 with only two victories on the clock one match from the end of the first leg. As revealed by our colleagues from Midi Libre, a second division district match between US Villeveyrac and AS Celleneuve was stopped on December 15 amid racist insults.
It all started with a goal denied to the local club, visibly provoking the ire of some of its supporters, who took Kévin Salvador, the Martinican captain of the ASC, to task. They “called me a Kirikou, a kahlouche (black), and a dirty monkey,” the Martinican tells the regional daily. Stunned, the 35-year-old admits that “it’s the first time it’s gone this far.” “I have been insulted before but never to this extent. I cannot erase from my head the moment when I was called a little monkey,” he continues.
Villeveyrac “categorically” denies
Facts serious enough to push him to go to the Mèze gendarmerie the same day in order to file a complaint for “racist insults”. Facts which caused the host club to react, with the latter keen “to categorically deny any racist remarks emanating from its players or supporters, whether on or off the field” as we can read in a press release.
The case has been put under investigation in the Hérault district which should deliberate within “two to three weeks” according to Midi Libre.
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