Anti-discrimination group Fare slammed Dynamo Kiev’s plan to segregate fans based on their skin colour yesterday, calling it “utterly ridiculous.”

Four black fans were attacked during last week’s 0-0 draw with Chelsea at the NSK Olimpiyskyi Stadium, which led to its director Volodimir Spilchenko admitting to the Washington Post that he was willing to consider splitting up white and black supporters, an idea put forward by a journalist.

The anti-discrimination group’s executive director Piara Powar is astounded that such a proposal is even being taken seriously, saying: “This was a fearsome attack and then we have people who think it’s quite within the realms of a sensible response to just be trivialising the matter by suggesting separate areas of the stadium. It’s utterly ridiculous.

“This isn’t an initiative that comes from him but it’s a measure of how hopeless some of these guys are at that level and how trivial they think the whole issue is.

“There aren’t enough black fans in Kiev — in the whole of Kiev, let alone attending Dynamo Kiev — to have a separate stand.

“And if there were we’d know what would happen. They’d just be attacked.”

Two of the victims were hospitalised, one was stabbed trying to escape, and Powar says that the evidence clearly shows that this was a racist attack.

“It’s quite clear the attack that took place. It’s documented in video. And subsequently other videos and still photographs have come to light.

“There’s no doubt this was a racist attack. From what we’ve now seen was it was a racist attack that was accompanied by people talking about ‘white power.’

“It was perpetrated by the far-right fans in the Olimpiyskyi Stadium.”

Uefa showed an anti-discrimination video prior to kick-off and despite Powar welcoming the attempt to highlight racism in sport, he feels that the club’s hierarchy needs to take a firmer, consistent stance.

“It’s about the messages which come from the leadership of a club on a weekly basis,” Powar added.

“Otherwise you don’t get across to some of the fans there.

“In Kiev, there are far-right groups allowed to flourish. It seems at times that there’s almost a blind eye being turned to the existence of those groups and their activity is allowed to go unchecked.”