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German Club Supporters Turn on Fan Who Racially Abused Opposing Player

BERLIN (AP) – The fans of German soccer club Preußen Münster showed how racist abuse can be handled, shouting “Nazis out! Nazis out!” after one of their own fans targeted a visiting player with monkey chants.

The perpetrator was a 29-year-old man who was forced out of the stadium. And the player, Würzburger Kickers defender Leroy Kwadwo, thanked the opposing fans their “exemplary” reaction.

“I was racially abused by one single spectator. It just makes me sad," Kwadwo wrote on Saturday, a day after the match. "I indeed have a different skin color, but I was born here in this wonderful land that has given my family and I so much and made so much possible.