The Premier League club giant, Chelsea FC, has its own way to deal with racial supporters. The club offered fans who were still trapped in racism to tour the former Nazi army concentration camp at Auschwitz. Chelsea provides an option to ban watching or course education to supporters who are proven to sing insulting songs to Jewish ethnicity.
A few Chelsea fans have been proven to sing anti-semitic or a song that smells of hate speech to Jews in the match against Tottenham in September 2017. After that, representatives of the Blues along with 150 supporters will travel to Auschwitz, Poland, in the context of an educational trip to the fans.
British club owner Roman Abramovich took the initiative to reduce racial prejudice that still pervades supporters who are still calling for hatred of Jews. This trip is expected to educate supporters who are involved in racial treatment rather than having to ban coming to Premier League matches.
“If you only forbid people from coming to the game, it will never change their behavior,” said Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck.
“This policy gives them the opportunity to be aware of what they have done and make them want to change their behavior,” he continued.
Buck also added that it was difficult to attract 50 to 100 shouting (anti-Jewish) people. But it will be easier if you can identify one individual, and take action.
“In the past, we would have pulled them out of the audience and banned them from watching the stadium directly for up to three years.
“Now we offer you to do something wrong. You have a choice. We can ban you or spend some time with our officers, understand what mistakes you have made.” he said.
It took Chelsea five years to find a way to overcome this racism. Last year, Roman sat with the seniors at the club and talked about it. This initiative to educate the holocaust has the support of the World Jewish Congress, the Holocaust Education Trust and leading Jewish scientist Rabbi Barry Marcus. These figures consider that the prohibition sentence will have no effect.
Auschwitz was a camp belonging to the Nazi German army in the Second World War. This camp located in Poland is known to be a massacre of Jews.
The second concentration camp named Birkenau has six gas chambers and four crematorium rooms. Using poisonous genocide gas, it is known that around 900 thousand Jewish prisoners were poisoned in the gas chamber before being cremated. While around 200 thousand other people died as a result of forced labor, starvation, torture, and illness.
Since 1947, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp has now become a museum and in 1979 it was named as one of the world historic sites by the UNESCO institution.
