Vinicius Jr: Real Madrid report racist abuse incident to prosecutors as hate crime

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The latest incidental of racist maltreatment towards Real Madrid guardant Vinicius Jr has been reported to the Spanish prosecutor's bureau arsenic a hatred crime, the nine says.

Following the match, successful which the 22-year-old Brazil planetary was aboriginal sent disconnected for convulsive conduct, helium said "La Liga belongs to racists".

Real Madrid issued a connection connected Monday stating that it "considers that specified attacks besides represent a hatred crime".

Spanish prosecutors volition present determine whether to prosecute a transgression investigation.

In a further connection connected societal media connected Monday, Vinicius said: "What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors complaint La Liga? Don't the televisions fuss to broadcast this barbarity each weekend?"

He added: "The occupation is precise serious, and property releases don't enactment anymore. Neither does blaming maine to warrant transgression acts. It's not football, it's inhuman."

'Another inadmissible episode' - Brazil government

Vinicius has been the people of racist maltreatment aggregate times this play and the Brazilian authorities said the incidental was "yet different inadmissible episode".

Its overseas ministry said it "deeply regrets that, until now, effectual measures person not been taken to forestall and debar the repetition of these acts of racism".

It urged the Spanish authorities and athletics authorities to "take the indispensable steps successful bid to punish the perpetrators and forestall the recurrence of these acts".

The ministry added: "It besides calls connected Fifa, the Spanish Federation and the league to use the due measures."

Spain's premier curate Pedro Sanchez said connected Twitter that determination was "zero tolerance for racism successful football".

He added: "Sport is founded connected the values of tolerance and respect. Hatred and xenophobia should person nary spot successful our shot and successful our society."

Infantino's program to halt racism

Fifa president Gianni Infantino said it was clip to "Stop talking, commencement acting" and acceptable retired 5 points to woody with racism.

He said a three-step process needed to beryllium utilized crossed shot to woody with incidents of racism successful matches - stopping the game, past re-stopping it, and past abandoning the match.

He besides called for circumstantial acquisition successful schools, an automatic forfeit decision for the squad whose fans caused the lucifer to beryllium abandoned, a worldwide stadium ban, and transgression convictions for those recovered guilty.

Barcelona manager Xavi called for drastic measures, saying: "You person to halt the match... One insult and everyone goes home."

In a statement, Real Madrid said it "shows its strongest revulsion and condemns the events that took spot yesterday against our subordinate Vinicius Junior".

The nine added: "These facts represent a nonstop onslaught connected the coexistence exemplary of our societal and antiauthoritarian authorities of law."

La Liga said successful a connection it would analyse and instrumentality "appropriate ineligible action" if a hatred transgression was identified, calling connected radical to taxable immoderate applicable footage.

Valencia said constabulary had "identified a instrumentality who made racist gestures" and that the "club are besides moving on with the constabulary to corroborate the individuality of immoderate different imaginable offenders".

The nine added: "Valencia CF person proceeded to unfastened a disciplinary case, volition use the maximum level of severity, including a beingness stadium prohibition against the fans involved, and is moving intimately unneurotic with the authorities."

Vinicius Jr maltreatment shows things indispensable alteration - Balague

Vinicius and Tebas Twitter row

Writing connected societal media aft the match, Vinicius said: "The title that erstwhile belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi contiguous belongs to racists."

He past exchanged messages with La Liga president Javier Tebas.

Writing connected Twitter, Tebas said Vinicius doubly did not crook up for a gathering to sermon what it "can bash successful cases of racism".

"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you request to pass yourself properly," Tebas said.

Vinicius criticised the station for targeting him alternatively of the "racists", saying helium wanted La Liga to instrumentality "actions and punishments".

Tebas past replied: "Neither Spain nor La Liga are racist, it is precise unfair to accidental that.

"We person reported 9 instances of racist insults this play (eight person been against Vinicius). We ever place the thugs liable and instrumentality the complaints each the mode to the applicable bodies who person powerfulness to punish them. No substance however fewer they are, our efforts are relentless."

He added: "We cannot let the estimation of a contention which is supra each a awesome of unity betwixt communities, wherever implicit 200 achromatic players from 42 clubs are welcomed with respect and emotion from fans each week, to beryllium tarnished.

"Cases of racism are an highly uncommon occurrence (nine reports) which we are committed to eliminating altogether."

Tebas comments called 'irresponsible behaviour'

However, Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has invited his Brazilian counterpart Ednaldo Rodrigues to sojourn the RFEF and asked him "to disregard the irresponsible behaviour of the president of La Liga".

Rubiales said "we person a serious, behavioural problem; of education, of racism" which requires "a steadfast effect from the federation, but they indispensable fto america use it and truthful acold it has not been the case".

He added: "The extremity we person acceptable for ourselves is that arsenic soon arsenic imaginable those who person suffered [racist abuse] astatine immoderate constituent tin accidental that it is not a occupation successful Spain."

Piara Powar, enforcement manager of European shot anti-discriminatory assemblage 'Fare', told the BBC they had recorded 11 instances of racism wrong stadiums this play and that Spanish shot "is successful situation close now".

"Seemingly nary of the authorities recognize however to respond," helium added. "There has been nary co-ordinated attack to these issues.

"La Liga's connection from Tebas is the benignant of sermon that we've been seeing passim Spanish media, wherever radical are blaming the victim, the subordinate himself. It's hard to fathom.

"The regularisation is confused. Nobody truly knows whether the Spanish FA should beryllium taking enactment oregon the government. There's a deficiency of work and deficiency of a azygous organisation coming guardant and saying 'we volition instrumentality work for this and spot enactment done until we statesman to spot immoderate change'.

"There does travel a crunch constituent wherever the league volition suffer players [because of racist abuse], successful the aforesaid mode Spain's projected World Cup bid [for 2030] volition beryllium seen arsenic a anemic bid due to the fact that of what's going connected successful shot successful that country."

The racist maltreatment that Vinicius has had to woody with this season

September 2022 - Some Atletico Madrid fans sang racist songs toward Vinicius extracurricular their Wanda Metropolitano stadium earlier Real Madrid played them successful September 2022. Atletico Madrid aboriginal condemned "unacceptable" chants by a "minority" of fans
September 2022 - Some pundits successful Spain criticise Vinicius' extremity celebration, successful which helium dances by country flag. He responds by saying "the happiness of a achromatic Brazilian successful Europe" is down the criticism
December 2022 - Vinicius appeared to beryllium subjected to racist maltreatment astatine Valladolid portion helium walked past fans aft being substituted. La Liga said it has filed charges relating to the racist maltreatment of Vinicius to the "relevant judicial, administrative and sporting bodies"
January 2023 - An effigy of the Real Madrid winger was hung from a bridge adjacent the club's grooming crushed earlier a crippled against Atletico Madrid successful the Copa del Rey. Atletico said the incidental was "repugnant"
February 2023 - Mallorca fans were filmed allegedly racially abusing the Brazilian during a crippled against Real
March 2023 - La Liga said "intolerable racist behaviour was erstwhile again observed against Vinicius" successful a crippled against Barcelona and it had reported the racist insults to the Barcelona Court of Instruction
May 2023 - Vinicius suffers racist maltreatment against Valencia