'Africans out' - German football's fourth tier hit by racism scandal
A racist insult is alleged to have been shouted from the crowd during the German fourth-tier match between FSV Zwickau and Rot-Weiss Erfurt at the weekend, several media reported on Monday. Erfurt player Raphael Assibey-Mensah said that he and team-mate Benny Boboy had been subjected to verbal abuse. "Benny fouled a player and a man shouted 'Africans out!
'" Assibey-Mensah told reporters. "I confronted him straight away but he kept shouting. "We are not in 1947.
Eastern Germany has developed. Of course there are still some who are underdeveloped," he added. Referee Johannes Schipke stopped the match for around five minutes after Assibey-Mensah's tip-off.
The perpetrator could not be identified. "I pointed at him. It's strange that they can't find him.
For me that is no coincidence. He has to go," Assibey-Mensah said. The winger once played for Zwickau himself for a year.