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Police investigate chants heard at Barcelona friendly
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Spain’s coach and justice minister condemn behaviour
Lamine Yamal has criticised as “intolerable” the chants by Spain fans during a friendly against Egypt in Barcelona that police are investigating for Islamophobia and xenophobia.
The chanting “was aimed at the opposing team and was not something personal against me, but as a Muslim it is still a lack of respect and something intolerable”, Lamal wrote on Instagram. “To those who sing these things: using a religion as a form of mockery on a pitch shows you up as ignorant and racist.”
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