A former RUC officer and human rights activist has been named
as one of the men involved in an allegedly racist incident on the Paris Metro
last week involving Chelsea supporters.
Richard Barklie, 50, from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland was
identified after the Metropolitan Police released stills of men they want to
speak to in connection with the incident.
Mr Barklie now works with human rights charity in Northern
Ireland which helps people affected by the troubles.
He has flown around the globe, even addressing a World Human
Rights forum in India in 2013 where he said he was a director of the World
Human Rights Forum.
The Sunday World newspaper in Dublin revealed that the former
police officer and Chelsea season ticket holder was on the train at the time of
the incident.
Mr Barkley has since been suspended by the Wave Trauma Centre
in Belfast where he helped victims of the Northern Irish Troubles.
The Chelsea season ticket holder is one of the three men
whose images were released by Scotland Yard as part of an investigation into a
group of supporters who allegedly pushed a black man off the train and chanted
a racist song in the French capital on Tuesday.
The incident happened ahead of Chelsea's Champions League
clash with Paris Saint-Germain, which ended 1-1.
Footage posted online showed the commuter - named in reports
as Souleymane S - being pushed back on to the platform amid chants of 'we're
racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it'.
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