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Four Chelsea fans given suspended jail terms over racist violence

Xinhua, January 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

A French court on Tuesday gave suspended jail sentences to four Chelsea soccer club fans accused of racist violence, a local daily reported.

James Fairbairn and Josh Parsons, who appeared before the judge, were given suspended sentences of eight months and six months, according to Le Parisien.

The two men, respectively aged 25 and 22, were accused of racist violence after blocking a black man from boarding a train in the French capital in 2015.

The two other fans who did not attend the trial, were sentenced to suspended one-year prison term. The four people are banned form entering Paris and its suburbs for two years, it added.

In February 2015, the four men who were in Paris to watch Chelsea against Paris Saint Germain in Champions League game stopped Souleymane Sylla, a French man of Mauritanian origin, from getting into the train while chanting "We're racist and that's the way we like it." Endit