Choose slams Chelsea fan’s ‘hateful and abusive content material’ as he palms down eight-week sentence for vile anti-semitic rhetoric

A 21-year-old Chelsea fan has been lambasted by a choose after he was sentenced to jail for posting anti-semitic abuse geared toward followers of London rivals Tottenham, together with photographs of Auschwitz and a person performing a Nazi salute.

Blues supporter Nathan Blagg, 21, was handed a two-month jail time period at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday after he pleaded responsible to seven counts of sending offensive messages – together with his sentence elevated by three weeks, the Crown Prosecution Service mentioned, after Blagg’s messages have been deemed as ‘racial hate crimes’.

The offending social media messages have been despatched between September 2020 and February of 2021, with the prosecution saying that they have been “racially aggravated… given the context of Tottenham Hotspur’s followers coming from a Jewish space.”

The courtroom added: “Nathan Blagg thought hiding behind a display might defend him from the results of posting hateful and abusive content material. That’s completely not the case.”

We welcome the end result of this case and the ensuing custodial sentence.

As a Membership, we are going to proceed to work carefully with the police and help the prosecution of such offences to point out that posting hateful and abusive content material has penalties.
#NoToHate #SayNoToAntisemitism https://t.co/R8LEvWoOPG

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) November 5, 2021

Amongst messages posted on-line by Bragg was of prepare tracks coming into Auschwitz, captioned: “Spurs are on their method to Auschwitz.”

In one other tweet, Blagg wrote: “Y*ds tomorrow, which implies for the following 48 hours I can tweet as a lot anti-Semitism as I need with out being informed off.”

One other mentioned: “Gasoline a Jew, Jew, Jew.”

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Blagg was taken into custody in February after his tweets have been reported to Chelsea’s safety workforce – together with his defence counsel saying that Blagg’s tweets contained the offensive phrases as a result of he was affected by “low moods” due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Chelsea applauded the sentence. “We welcome the end result of this case and the ensuing custodial sentence,” the Blues mentioned in a press release.

“As a membership, we are going to proceed to work carefully with the police and help the prosecution of such offences to point out that posting hateful and abusive content material has penalties.”

The determination comes amid separate stories of West Ham supporters singing anti-semitic chants to a Jewish man on board a flight to Genk forward of yesterday’s Europa League conflict in Belgium.

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West Ham have promised at hand out lifetime bans to any followers discovered to have taken half after saying that they have been “appalled by the contents of the video circulating on social media.”

“The membership is liaising with the airline and related authorities to establish the people,” the Hammers mentioned in a press release. 

“We proceed to be unequivocal in our stance – we’ve a zero-tolerance method to any type of discrimination. Any people recognized will probably be issued with an indefinite ban from the membership.

“Equality, range and inclusion are on the coronary heart of the soccer membership and we don’t welcome any people who don’t share these values.”

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