On Monday, Real Madrid filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office “for hate crimes and discrimination” against Brazilian international Vinicius Junior following Sunday’s incidents in Valencia, the club said.
Real Madrid believes that such attacks also constitute a hate crime, therefore, it has filed a corresponding complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office, in particular the Prosecutor General’s Office against hate crimes and discrimination, so that the facts are investigated and accountability created”, — stated on the official page of the club.
The merengue reaction came after FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Monday expressed the organization’s solidarity with the player who was the target of racist abuse during the Valencia-Real Madrid game at the Mestalla Stadium on Sunday.
“Real Madrid expresses its strongest condemnation and denounces the events that took place yesterday against our player Vinicius Junior. These facts represent a direct attack on the coexistence model of our social and democratic state,” the club emphasizes.
The reaction to Vini’s complaint was repeated in the morning, and this Monday the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) and the Movement Against Intolerance filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office along the same lines as the club.
The Players’ Union remembers asking several times for a meeting with the Anti-Violence Commission but receiving no response, and emphasizes that the Spanish League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the government “have disciplinary mechanisms in place to take decisive action” in these cases. cases.
“If they don’t, if they don’t take violent action, we will continue to fail as a society in the face of facts that cross our borders and cause irreparable damage to the image of our country,” they add.
Vinicius, who was sent off after attacking an opponent at the very end of Sunday’s 90+7 match in the Spanish League in which the Merengue lost 1-0, criticized the Spanish League and fans in a message published on social media.
“It was not the first time, not the second and not the third. Racism is normal in La Liga. The competition sees it as normal, the federation sees it as normal, and the competitors encourage it. I’m sorry about that. Once it belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi, today it belongs to the racists,” the player wrote on Twitter.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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