Monday, February 23, 2015

Revealed: Chelsea 'racist chant suspect' named as former Northern Ireland police officer who is now a director of HUMAN RIGHTS charity

Richard Barklie, pictured, has been identified as one of the people wanted in connection with the Paris Metro racism row. Mr Barklie is a former RUC police officer from Northern Ireland and a human rights worker
Those with info can call 101Police released the images of the three men on Friday eveningThe Metropolitan police released images of three men they are keen to speak to following the incident in Paris
A former police 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. [See VIDEO ]

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 Barklie, right, said he offered 'his sincerest apologies for the trauma and stress suffered' by Mr Sylla Mr Barklie, bottom right, admitted that he was involved in the incident on the train but denies being a racist

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 Sylla - 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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