{"id":4790,"date":"2013-06-06T05:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2013-06-06T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T05:12:01","slug":"italian-soccer-fans-sentenced-for-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4790","title":{"rendered":"Italian soccer fans sentenced for &#8216;racism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4791\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kevin-prince_boateng_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4791\" title=\"kevin-prince_boateng5\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kevin-prince_boateng_5-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kevin-prince_boateng_5-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kevin-prince_boateng_5.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AC Milan&#39;s Kevin-Prince Boateng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"BodyP1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six fans of lower-division club Pro Patria have been issued jail sentences from 40 days to two months for inciting racial hatred during a January friendly against AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After repeated racist chants directed at him during the match, Milan and Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng kicked the ball in anger at a section of the crowd, took off his shirt and walked off the pitch with the rest of the Rossoneri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milan players Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and M&#8217;Baye Niang were also targeted by the chants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors had requested four- to six-month sentences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANSA news agency reports that one fan received a 40-day sentence after collaborating with authorities, while the other five fans received two-month sentences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fans were also fined a total of ?10,000 ($13,000), plus trial expenses. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six fans of lower-division club Pro Patria have been issued jail sentences from 40 days to two months for inciting racial hatred during a January friendly against AC Milan. After repeated racist chants directed at him during the match, Milan and Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng kicked the ball in anger at a section of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italian soccer fans sentenced for &#8216;racism&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[2556,2891,65,157,476],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-italy","tag-kevin-prince-boateng","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-soccer"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kevin-prince_boateng_5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}