Three Valencia fans have been sentenced this Monday to eight months in prison and two years without entering football stadiums for having used racist insults in a match on May 21, 2023 in Mestalla to the Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr, in addition to the payment of costs. In a statement, LaLiga welcomed the court decision, which is “the first conviction for racist insults in a football stadium in Spain.”
The events happened a year ago, when in a confrontation between Valencia and Real Madrid, Vinicius reported having received racist insults from fans located in the Animation Stand. The match was stopped for a few minutes, the player identified one of the accused and, after LaLiga reported that same night, two others were identified with Valencia’s internal cameras.
In the match where the events occurred, Vinicius was about to enter the area with the ball when a rival player, Cömert, kicked another that had been thrown from the stands, and disrupted the play with a billiard carom. There began a very long and strange succession of events that stopped the game for several minutes. Some fans had insulted the Brazilian and he wanted to draw a very clear line against the racist insults. The Brazilian located someone in the background who was insulting him and began to point at him, seeking the referee’s assistance. He went to the side of the goal to continue pointing at that person, accompanied by Rüdiger, Lucas Vázquez and Militão. “That one, that one!” he pointed out. “It was you!” Some Valencia players also came to try to take him away from there.
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