The game between the football teams Campenaar and Maccabi, at Neder-over-Hembeek, ended on Sunday afternoon with insults against the referee as well as against Maccabi’s supporters. These insults were uttered by the player-coach of Campenaar, after his exclusion from the game for having uttered insults during the match. While he was slowly leaving the field to go to the locker rooms, he continued to insult the referee, in Dutch and Yugoslavian. When he arrived in front of Maccabi’s supporters (about forty people, including men, women, children and older persons), he started insulting them and calling them names, treating them of “sales Juifs” (filthy Jews) and suspecting them of paying drinks to the referee once the game is over. It was followed by a fight. A complaint was filed with the Belgium Football Union and the Brussels police. Maccabi and the Centre pour l’Egalité des Chances et la Lutte contre le Racisme (Centre for equality of chances and against racism) associated with the prosecutor.
Date: January 14, 2007
