The Valencia Prosecutor’s Office has officially opened an investigation to determine if the Racist insults uttered to Vinicius during the soccer match played on Sunday at the Mestalla stadium between Valencia and Real Madrid constitute a hate crime, as reported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
This same Monday, Real Madrid has denounced the case before the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE). The Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE) and the Movement against Intolerance (MCI) have also announced a complaint before the same headquarters. However, tax sources consulted by Europa Press indicate that there is still no record of all these complaints.
The events took place on Sunday night when shouts of “monkey” were heard from the Mestalla stands directed at the Madrid striker. Vini Jr. refused to play, while the referee De Burgos Bengoetxea initiated the protocol against racism and a warning was issued over the public address system. However, the match continued and Vinicius was
expelled shortly after in an action with Hugo Duro.
The white club has shown its strongest rejection and condemnation of the events that took place on Sunday against the Brazilian player. “These events constitute a direct attack on the coexistence model of our social and democratic state of law,” the club said in a statement.
In it, the team has announced that “such attacks also constitute a hate crime”, which has led them to ask the FGE to “investigate the facts and determine responsibilities”.
The RFEF, “dismayed” by the insults
In it, the team has announced that “such attacks also constitute a hate crime”, which has led them to ask the FGE to “investigate the facts and determine responsibilities”.
For its part, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has declared itself “dismayed” and has urged that “more forceful measures” be adopted in allusion to racist chants.
In a statement, the RFEF has indicated that these attitudes “must be eradicated” and has urged that the protocols be activated “urgently” so that the “most forceful measures are adopted immediately.”
“Both the committee and the State Anti-Violence and Xenophobia and Racism Commission in Sport should take action on the matter, even closing stands every time this happens and stadiums when it is due to recidivism,” he said.
In this sense, the body has asked the clubs to collaborate in the “immediate eradication of these unfortunate events, respecting the sports rules and sanctions and not delaying them with artificial judicial resources.”
Vinicius is pronounced
The Real Madrid forward made a strong criticism of LaLiga and the Spanish soccer fan this Sunday for “normal racism” in the competition, after the incidents with Mestalla.
“It was not the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in LaLiga. The competition believes that it is normal, the Federation also and the opponents encourage it. I’m sorry. The championship that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi today belongs to racists, ”she wrote on her Twitter account.
Vinicius pointed out that from Brazil they see Spain as a nation of racists. “A beautiful nation, which welcomed me and the one I love, but which agreed to export to the world the image of a racist country. I feel sorry for the Spaniards who disagree, but today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists”, he added.
