A FORMER cop is among four fans slapped with football bans for racially abusing and shoving a black man off a train.
Ringleader Richard Barklie, 50, was filmed pushing commuter Souleymane Sylla back onto the platform as some passengers on the train chanted: “We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it,” a court heard.
Barklie, who is also chief of the World Human Rights Forum, apologised and insisted he was not racist.
But he did admit to being aggressive and pushing Mr Sylla twice.
Chelsea fans Josh Parsons, 20, and William Simpson, 26, also received five-year bans.
Jordan Munday, 20, was banned for three years.
The club also slapped the fans with a life ban from Chelsea matches.
A fifth man, Dean Callis, 32, of Islington, north London, earlier received a five-year banning order.
The men had denied they were racist and claimed Mr Sylla was only pushed off the train because it was “packed”, not because he is black.
Video emerged in February showing Frenchman Mr Sylla repeatedly pushed off the carriage amid chanting.
It happened as Chelsea fans were in the French capital to watch the Champions League match against Paris St Germain.
Earlier that evening a gang of around 150 Chelsea supporters had roamed through Paris, some lighting flares as they chanted, while others clambered on cars.
Parsons, who used to work for a finance company in Mayfair and lives in Dorking, Surrey, leaned out of the train and shouted “where were you in World War Two?” and “F*** the IRA”, the court heard.
The judge said Parsons displayed “aggressive and disorderly conduct as part of a pack of Chelsea fans”.
Simpson has previously been arrested twice before for race-connected crimes, including once allegedly calling a taxi driver a “f****** Paki”.
District Judge Gareth Branston told London’s Stratford Magistrates Court: “This was an abhorrent, nasty, offensive, arrogant and utterly unacceptable behaviour and cannot be allowed in modern, civilised society.
“It must be stamped out.”