Marseille's Alvaro Gonzalez not punished for alleged racist abuse of Neymar

Olympique Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez has not been punished after Paris Saint-Germain superstar Neymar accused him of racial abuse following a match that occurred earlier his month. 

As French football insider Julien Laurens explained for ESPN, the French league disciplinary committee ruled that they "didn't have enough strong elements to establish the materiality of the facts regarding Alvaro's alleged racial abuse towards Neymar or from Neymar towards Alvaro."

Television replays appeared to validate Neymar's claim that Alvaro called him a "monkey" during the match that included a brawl, which ended with the referee sending five players off. Marseille, meanwhile, accused Neymar of using racist language toward Alvaro and defender Hiroki Sakai. 

The disciplinary committee cleared Neymar despite some damning evidence (link contains inappropriate language). 

Days after the match, French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet controversially said, "This phenomenon of racism in sport, and in football, in particular, does not exist at all or barely exists."