Chelsea have suspended three people from their Stamford Bridge stadium following an investigation into a racist incident, captured in amateur video footage on the Paris metro, the club said yesterday.

The video appeared to show fans of the London team chanting “we’re racist and that’s the way we like it” as they stopped a black man boarding a train on Tuesday.

The incident was captured on video by another passenger on the platform at the Richelieu-Drouot metro station before Chelsea played Paris St Germain in a Champions League match at the Parc des Princes.

“Chelsea Football Club is suspending three people from Stamford Bridge as a result of investigations into the incident on the Paris metro on Tuesday evening,” the Premier League club said on their website (www.chelseafc.com).

“If it is deemed there is sufficient evidence of their involvement in the incident the club will issue banning orders for life.

“We have received substantial information to date following our witness appeal and we are grateful to the many Chelsea supporters who have provided information so far,” the club added.

Meanwhile, the victim of Tuesday’s racist incident did not know the incident had been filmed and widely broadcast and will now lodge an official complaint with police, he told French daily Le Parisien.

“I don’t speak a word of English ... but it was clear to me they were picking on me because of the colour of my skin,” the victim, identified by Le Parisien as Souleymane, 33, said.