OFFICIAL: Denzel Dumfries and Inter have each been fined €4000 after the player lifted an offensive banner directed towards a rival player. The club attempted to appeal the fine but the FIGC denied the request.

Following a plea agreement reached by the parties (pursuant to art. 126 CGS), Inter footballer Denzel Dumfries was sanctioned with a fine of 4,000 euros. Inter was also sanctioned with a fine of the same amount, by way of objective liability.

Proceedings had been opened against Dumfries and Inter for having, during the parade organized on 28 April by the club to celebrate the victory of the Scudetto on board an open-top bus, display a banner ‘with an unequivocally suggestive content and therefore same disrespectful and offensive towards the Milan member Theo Hernandez and, for the effect and more generally towards the latter club and its fans and, in particular, a banner with a prominently displayed image depicting the footballer Theo Hernandez with the features of a dog kept on a leash by Dumfries himself.