Bad episode occurred on the occasion of Reggiana-Bari. The Algerian side of the red and whites Mehdi Dorval he was in fact the target of racist insults.
Referee Prontera suspended the match for more than five minutes and the game, at the Città del Tricolore stadium, resumed only after the speaker’s announcement inviting the public to behave civilly. At the end of the match, Bari wanted to express its closeness to the footballer through its social channels: “There are things that have nothing to do with football and sport and it is unacceptable to still listen to xenophobic and racist insults in against athletes, often even very young ones. We are close to our Mehdi and to anyone, in any field and context, who still finds himself having to suffer discriminatory insults linked to the color of his skin, his religion, his gender, his physique. or his sexual orientation”.
Through a story published on his profile Instagramthe Reggiana midfielder Nathan Girma he expressed himself thus on the incident: “Reggio Emilia is not racist. It is unacceptable that 2-3 idiots ruin the image of the fans and the entire city. It cannot be accepted that episodes like these still happen today in 2025. Zero tolerance” .