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Wasn’t the Nascar racism scandal?

FBI report

A gallows knit as a death threat caused a stir in the United States. But FBI investigations reveal: No problem. The affected Bubba Wallace still sees it differently.

Commits to the fight against racism: Nascar professional Bubba Wallace. Image: AP

The only dark-skinned Nascar driver Bubba Wallace (26) has apparently not been the target of a hate crime after all. This emerges from the concluding investigations by the US federal FBI police, as the racing series announced on Tuesday (local time). “The FBI report comes to the conclusion, and photographic evidence confirms that the looped garage door pull rope was already there last fall,” the Nascar homepage said.

The rope was in the garage long before the team’s arrival at the Talladega Superspeedway in the US state of Alabama. “We appreciate the quick and thorough investigation by the FBI and are grateful to learn that this was not a deliberate, racist act against Bubba,” said the racing series.

Wallace sticks to his version

Wallace himself insisted on the initial assessment. Wallace told CNN that the picture of the object he had seen did not show a garage door pull rope. «It was a gallows knit. Whether knotted in 2019 or whatever, it was a gallows knit. »

At the weekend, a gallows rope was apparently found in Wallace’s garage on the Talladega Superspeedway race track in the US state of Alabama. This had caused a stir in the past few days and had been condemned as a racist attack on Wallace. The 26-year-old campaigned for the “Black Lives Matter” movement and had spoken out in favor of a ban on the Confederate flag at Nascar events. The Confederates fought the southern states in the American Civil War (1861-1865) of the southern states and fought against the abolition of slavery and against more rights for blacks.

(dpa)

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