Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka suffered racist attacks during Euro 2024. The police decided to open an investigation to identify the alleged culprits.
The summer of 2024 of Jude Bellingham had started rather well on the side of Germany, at the time when the Euro was going. Present in the English selection, the Real Madrid player had reached the final with his own (defeat against Spain). However, he has known some serious annoyances, due to several verbal attacks of a racist nature. Aimed in the same way as his teammate Bukayo Saka, the former Borussia Dortmund was not spared by various individuals wandering on social networks, and whose police decided to take care.
As confirmed by the Dailymail On Wednesday, an investigation is about to open in order to shed light on racist abuses including the two members of Three lions were targets on social networks. The messages studied have been classified into several categories, said the English media. Saka suffered the most attacks ” first -level (51), while Bellingham was the second most targeted player (40), the third being the Swiss international, Manuel Akanji (31), followed by Romelu Lukaku in this sad ranking (30).
FA in support
Quoted by the media, the head of the National Council of Police Heads, in charge of football regulations, Mark Roberts, said that means had been implemented upstream of Euro 2024, to allow faster identifications in the event of abuse. “” What we wanted above all was to speak to the players to tell them that they must be aware that we are dealing with the subject, that we do it seriously (…). “”
The investigation is therefore about to start. During the content of the messages in question, the investigators are in work, they who also received financial support from the English Federation to help them in their work.
