• novel facility designed to improve efforts to bring abusers to book
• Instant posts of video,audio and screen shot evidence now possibleA mobile phone app that will allow football supporters to report racist and other abuse instantly and attach photographs, video, and audio or screen shots has been launched by the game’s anti-discrimination campaign organisation,Kick It Out. The facility to attach evidence of such incidents, which is often vital to securing disciplinary or criminal action against people committing abuse, or is a meaningful improvement to the reporting app first launched by Kick It Out in July 2013.
Mobile phone footage of the Chelsea supporters pushing a black French citizen,Souleymane Sylla, off the Paris Metro in February was crucial to the incident being publicised and ultimately punished last month with three fans banned from attending football matches for the maximum five years and a fourth banned for three years.
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Source: theguardian.com