Germany and Bayern Munich star Jerome Boateng hits back at racists by auctioning off signed chocolate bar
Bigots attacked the defender for appearing on Kinder wrappers but he won the war with a great clearance and a cheeky stunt
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Germany and Bayern Munich hero Jerome Boateng has had the last laugh over racists by auctioning off a chocolate bar he was attacted for helping to advertise.
Back in May he was one of a number Germany players from their Euro 2016 squad to have a childhood photo used on Kinder chocolate wrappers instead of the usual blonde and blue-eyed boy.
Spiteful bigots criticised the confectioners for using what they believed were un-German images without realising they were pictures of some of the national team’s biggest stars, inlcuding part-Turkish Ilkay Gundogan.
On social media sites, racists hit out at Ferrero SpA, the Italian parent company that owns the famous chocolate brand.
One fuming bully from Germany’s vocal anti-Islam and immigration movement PEGIDA said: “They’ll stop at nothing. Can you really buy them like this?”
Another wrote: ““They’re trying to pass this s*** off as normal, poor Germany,”
And “This must be a fake, no?!?!?”
The chocolate firm hit back saying: “We at Ferrero would like to distance ourselves from any form of xenophobia or discrimination.
“We don’t accept or tolerate this in our Facebook communities either.”
And now Boateng, who produced a brilliant last-ditch clearance off the goalline to help his side to a 2-0 over Ukraine on Sunday, has stuck the boot in on the thugs.
The sale was organised by refugee aid worker Martin Keune and has already received over 100 offers for the chocolate bar, some has high £240.