Tetei at trial Beu: “I don’t feel like a monkey, I feel like a man”

THE Andreas Tetei attended the hearing of the case for him characterization of “monkey” addressed to him by Achilles Beos in the match between Kifissia and Volos.

The 22-year-old striker, who was born in Greece but hails from Ghana, said: “I fell under a clear foul that my opponent fouled me. I heard from the bench someone saying to himself ‘the monkey fell’ and I told the referee. They didn’t know who he is, as I didn’t see him. I asked the referee to do something but he said he didn’t hear anything, neither he nor the quarterback. I don’t feel like a monkey, I feel like a human. It’s the first time I’ve heard something like that“, he said.

To the claim of Mr. Beu’s lawyer, Haris Grigoriou, that the referee was close to the phase, Tetei replied: “It was far away. The ears are one thing and the eyes are another. He saw the scene but didn’t listen».

Mr. Beau’s lawyer, Ms. Vlachava, asked the football player “Have you ever heard the phrase monkey league?“, with Tetei replying “Never!». The president of Volos asked the player if he knows him and he also answered in the negative.

The lawyer of Kifissia, Argyris Livas, stated that “… it is clearly heard in the video that he says the word ‘monkey’. The video is from the provider that also works with PAE Volos».

Two defense witnesses, the Voliotis arbitration observer Mr. Dalakas and the journalist Mr. Panagiotopoulos, claimed that they understood the word “monkey” not in a racist connotation, but in the sense of kalpikos.