Djibril Cisse hits out at racist 'idiots' on Twitter

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The French striker, who joined the west Londoners from Italian side Lazio this week, retweeted two messages seemingly from supporters of the Rome club before turning on his tormentors.

A Twitter user, under the name @vela-sandro, initially targeted the former Liverpool forward with a message saying: "Die n***** b****** Lazio fans hate you!!!!".

Another, under the name @LorenzoMecci, then said: "djibril is a big monkey."

The France international, who scored in his new team's 2-2 draw with Aston Villa last night, responded in a series of Tweets.

"@vela-sandro wow u are an idiot man insulting me like this coz I left lazio wow u are a real idiot," he said, before also responding in strongly-worded Italian.

After the second message was posted he added: "Wow is it the idiot parade today.

"I retweeted them just to show how some people are f****** stupids just because I left a club I'm a f****** n***** who deserve to die or a big monkey?wow I'm really shocked u 2 guys are f****** brainless and u should be f****** ashamed."

He then turned his attention back to the user @vela-sandro with a popular Italian profanity.

The incident is the latest in a number of recent racial flashpoints, with Liverpool striker Luis Suarez currently serving a suspension for comments made to Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra and England captain John Terry standing accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, allegations he denies.