Police
are investigating after hate-filled social media fans viciously attacked the
Liverpool and Italy striker after he goaded the Red Devils this afternoon
Mario
Balotelli was racially abused on Twitter today after he mocked Manchester
United's 5-3 defeat at Leicester City.
Hate-filled
social media users targeted the Liverpool and Italy striker after he goaded the
Red Devils fans with a tweet which simply read: 'Man utd ... LOL.'
One
vile tweeter, known only as iMonko, wrote: "Monkey, monkey, monkey,
monkey, monkey."
Another,
using the Twitter handle Maroc, tweeted: "You're a f*****g monkey. Oo Oo
ah ah."
And
one particularly disgusting tirade read: "@F**k you Mario you f*****g n****r.
Go eat some bananas and get ebola you dirty monkey."
Many
others came to Balotelli's defence and some screengrabbed and re-tweeted some
of the vile messages, and forwarded them on to police.
The
football equality group Kick It Out said in a message on Twitter that it was
aware of the racist tweets directed bat Balotelli and that it would be
reporting the matter to the authorities.
Merseyside
Police has since said it is investigating.
The
force posted a message on Twitter, which read: "We can confirm officers
are looking into offensive comments made on Twitter about Mario Balotelli
earlier today."
Asked
if they were launching an investigation, a Merseyside Police spokesman said
"yes, we are", adding: "As far as I am aware there have been no
complaints but we have been made aware of it by a number of press
inquiries."
Manchester
United led 3-1 at half-time before conceding four second-half goals in 21
minutes against newly-promoted Leicester.
Balotelli
was joined by others from across the world of football left in disbelief at
United’s latest horror show.
Former
Arsenal midfielder and Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson said: "Man Utd a
Gillion miles away from winning the title."
TV
presenter and Arsenal fan Piers Morgan tweeted: "To be fair to Van Gaal,
he has brought in a new era at United - they're worse than I've ever seen
them."
And Match of the Day presenter and former
Leicester striker Gary Lineker simply said: "S*** on Man United!"
The
controversial 24-year-old, born to Ghanaian immigrants in Italy before being
fostered by an Italian family, suffered from racism throughout his career in
Italy, and was even racially abused by fans at a national team training camp
ahead of this summer's World Cup.
In
April 2009, Inter president Massimo Moratti said he would have taken his team
off the pitch following the abuse the 18-year-old received at Juventus.
And
during the summer of 2009, he had a banana thrown at him in Rome in the city
centre.
In
an interview published in GQ magazine in July he said: "They (the abusers(
aren't used to seeing people who are different, not white, who act not as
rebels but normally.
"I
think what the ignorant people don't like is that people who are different are
allowed to act that way.
"These
stupid people, they get angry with me, they say horrible things, but I haven't
done anything different from other people.
"I
have made mistakes, like everyone does, and I have always paid for my mistakes.
"I
think that if I was white maybe some people would still find me irritating or
annoying but it wouldn't be the same.
"Absolutely
not.
"Jealousy
is a horrible thing, but when this jealousy is towards people who are different
from the majority, and who maybe also have more than you, then it becomes
anger, it becomes rage, and that's the overt racism."
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