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MARIO BALOTELLI will walk off the pitch if he is a target for racist yobs at Euro 2012. And the Manchester City star says he would kill anyone who throws bananas at him in Poland and Ukraine. A BBC documentary highlighted the Euro hosts� problems with racism and UEFA insist referees could abandon games if there is any trouble. Italy striker Balo, 21, said: �If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him. �Racism is unacceptable to me, I cannot bear it. I hope there will not be a problem at the Euros because if it does happen I would straight away leave the pitch and go home. �We are in 2012, it can�t happen.� Balotelli, 21, was subjected to racist abuse from fans during City�s Europa League tie with Porto in February. But he had it much worse during his days at Inter Milan back in 2009 when he had bananas thrown at him during a match. Balotelli told France Football: �These two or three lads were lucky the police came straight away because, I swear, I would have given them a proper kicking. I would have destroyed them. �I hope that doesn�t happen again.� Another incident in Italy occurred when Balotelli was on the receiving end of abuse from Juventus fans. He said: �I remember it well because I scored a goal. �Occasionally, you�re so good that people can�t think of any other way to make you angry. They think the only way to play badly is to provoke you. �I had to pretend that I hadn�t seen anything because I wanted to play. �I was young. It was up to me to tell the referee. But if I had told the referee to stop the match I wouldn�t have scored.�