Before the Ligue 1 match won in Nîmes (0-2) last Sunday, Denis Bouanga received a video of racist supporters. Shocked, the AS Saint-Etienne winger showed the footage to his officials. Hence the actions taken by the club and the group of Magic Fans.
Before the reception of the Girondins de Bordeaux on Sunday afternoon, AS Saint-Etienne was disturbed in its preparation by an intolerable act. The facts date back to last weekend when Denis Bouanga, in the green before the match in Nîmes, received a video on the Snapchat social network in which supporters addressed him racist remarks.
The excuses of the Magic Fans
” Dirty nigga “,” ASSE is a white club “,” Chalalalala, go home! “, Heard the Greens winger, who had the instinct to borrow a teammate’s phone to capture the images, before showing them to the group and its leaders, said L’Equipe. Suffice to say that this video shocked the members of the club, and not only. The authors of these images, members of the Magic Fans, were fired from the group of supporters.
The same association whose officials came to apologize to the workforce Thursday morning at the training center. Before issuing a press release a few hours later. ” It is with shame that we are forced to communicate today. We, Magic Fans, strongly condemn these comments and apologize to all players, staff, reacted the group of faithful. (…) We still wonder how a small group of people who have neither the values nor the mentality of our group could overcome our mistrust of behavior like this. “
The club filed a complaint
Then ASSE, which lodged a complaint against X, officially reacted on its official website to share the outrage of its workforce and support the Magic Fans. ” There is no question of amalgamating with our supporters who do not represent this act, explained coach Claude Puel. Things have been said and done. It affects the player, his teammates, the staff and the club. “A soap opera which unfortunately degrades the image of the ultras from Saint-Etienne.