Fare Network, an organisation established to counter inequality and discrimination in football, has called on FIFA to remove a video assistant referee (VAR) official from the World Cup after he flashed an allegedly white supremacist gesture during a match.
The incident happened when Germany faced Curaçao on Sunday.
When the pre-game footage of the official broadcast cut to the VAR team, Shaun
Evans, one of the officials, was seen making a reversed “okay” sign with his
right hand in front of his right leg.
Anti-Defamation League, a global anti-bigotry organisation,
designated the gesture as a hate symbol since 2019.
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| Full image of the VAR official with the alleged white supremacist symbol |
In a statement, Fare Network, a long-time partner of FIFA to
monitor racist and discriminatory behaviour, said “the gesture used clearly
resembles an upside-down ‘OK’ hand symbol used as a ‘white power’ symbol in
global far-right circles”.
“Clearly, this official should have no further role to play
in this World Cup,” the statement read.
It remains unclear whether Evans, an Australian making his
World Cup debut, was making a political gesture.
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