Monaco coach questioned over alleged racist insults

AS Monaco's Italian coach Marco Simone was briefly questioned by French police as part of a probe into alleged racist insults he made against an airport worker, a source close to the enquiry said on Thursday.The affair goes back to August 15 last year when the former AC Milan player was at Paris' main Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport before taking a plane.According to reports, an airport worker of Moroccan nationality who was helping a wheelchair-bound passenger requested that Simone pay attention to a child who was accompanying him and was playing in front of the wheelchair.The airport worker was allegedly insulted by 43-year-old Simone and filed a complaint with police the following day.A meeting between Simone and the alleged victim was organised on Wednesday before the coach was released. The source added that the enquiry was continuing.

Source: AFP