The Merengue team has opened an investigation to identify those responsible for the shouts against the Barcelona footballer with the aim of “being able to adopt the appropriate disciplinary and legal measures”. LaLiga and the Spanish government have also questioned what happened at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Barcelona crushed Real Madrid in the classic . The culé team won its visit to the Santiago Bernabéu and gave the merengue team a historic victory, 4-0.
The goals were the work of Robert Lewandowski, twice, Raphinha and Lamine Yamal . In this sense, it was precisely the latter who was the protagonist for non-football reasons, since He suffered a series of racist insults in the local stands.
The 17-year-old striker scored a superb goal and held nothing back to celebrate. He ran towards the corner, near the Madrid fans, who did not welcome his celebration. The left-hander made Cristiano Ronaldo’s memorable “I’m here” gesture, as well as later highlighting his name on his jersey number.
The celebration was not only recorded by the official channel, but was also captured from local stands and popularized on social networks. There you can see the series of insults that the player suffered. “Fucking Moor”, “selling handkerchiefs to the fire” and “fucking black” were some of the cries that ruined the show at the Bernabéu.
Transversal condemnation
The situation provoked immediate reactions. Real Madrid itself released an official statement condemning its supporters’ insults towards Yamal. “Real Madrid strongly condemns any type of behavior involving racism, xenophobia or violence in football and sport. “, and deeply regrets the insults that some supporters uttered last night in one of the corners of the stadium,” the letter begins.
Furthermore, the Merengue team assured that it had opened an investigation. “Real Madrid has opened an investigation to locate and identify the perpetrators of these regrettable and despicable insults, in order to adopt appropriate disciplinary and legal measures. “, the press release said.
LaLiga also referred to the events that occurred at the Madrid site. “Taking into account the events that occurred during the Real Madrid CF – FC Barcelona match, during which Intolerable racist behavior has been observed, LALIGA will immediately report the racist insults and gestures received by FC Barcelona players to the Hate Section of the Information Brigade of the National Police. informing the Hon. Courtroom Coordinating Prosecutor for the Hate Crimes and Discrimination Unit of the State Attorney General’s Office. LALIGA strongly condemns these events at the Santiago Bernabéu and remains firm in its commitment to eradicating all types of racist behavior and hatred inside and outside the stadiums. In sport, there is no place for this scourge “, they said in an official letter.
On the other hand, even the Spanish government condemned what happened. The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, said: “The racist insults addressed to Lamine Yamal in the Classic are all that the Government will fight against. We are not going to allow attacks that we do not tolerate in other spaces to be normalized in sport. “Full support for the players and La Liga’s complaint.”
Source: Latercera
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