The proceedings launched following the racist insults received by Vinicius at the Mestalla on Sunday continued this Friday on both fronts, the judicial and sports authorities. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Appeal Committee has reduced the initial penalty of €45,000 and five finals for the Kempes stand. The penalty is finally €27,000 and three final games after Valencia partially acknowledged allegations that they took preventive measures despite these not being enough to prevent the footballer from being attacked.
At the level of ordinary justice, the head of the Investigative Court No. 10 of Valencia announced today the order by which she opened a pre-trial investigation into Real Madrid’s insults against the Brazilian for possible commission of a hate crime in the game against Valencia. The judge, as investigating officer, led the three bystanders arrested by the national police on Tuesday. Before testifying, the three respondents must appear in court.
The judge has already accumulated the lawsuit filed by LaLiga on the same issue, which already appears as a private prosecutor as a person in the case, at this earlier proceeding. In addition, he has already informed the courts of Madrid so that they have the necessary technical means to obtain a testimony from Vinicius as an injured party via videoconference, which the Brazilian has already done in the case brought before a court in Mallorca for a others An episode of insults and racism occurred on February 5 at Mallorca-Real Madrid in Son Moix.
On the other hand, in response to the investigative procedures requested by the League in its complaint, the order reflects that recorded images of the incidents were already collected and investigated by the National Police and included in the report. However, the judge decided to send a letter to Valencia to ask the country to keep this audiovisual material from the 72nd minute of the game in case it was needed at any point during the investigation.
In addition, the court will order the Valencian club to identify some of the security guards who were on duty on the day of the match in order to be able to call them as witnesses.
Shortly thereafter, it began to be felt that Vinicius would be absent from Madrid’s first post-tsunami game in Valencia. The Brazilian did not appear at the training session open to the press this morning and Carlo Ancelotti later confirmed that the Brazilian would not be traveling to Seville for tomorrow’s game on Saturday at the Sánchez Pizjuán (19:00, Dazn): “He’s not travelling, because he can’t play, just that. Because if he had a chance, he would travel and try to play. The knee continues to bother him, not because it’s away from home or home. He can’t play. And hopefully I can play the last game.” Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio and Mariano will also not be in the game, all three have physical problems.
Saturday’s meeting in Seville was presented as the first signing to see if the events at the Mestalla and the general unrest that followed have led to a change in the attitude of opposition fans towards the Brazilian. Almost a week later, Vinicius remains at the center of all talks, which Sevilla coach José Luis Mendilibar tried to debunk at a press conference when they asked him if he thought his fans could send a message against racism : “Here are we against everything bad that can happen.” It’s fashionable now. Job”.
Despite what happened in the Valencia and Madrid courts, the matter has not come to a standstill. Brazilian Ambassador to Spain Orlando Leite visited LaLiga President Javier Tebas in the morning and both agreed to “strongly condemn any racist expression and they pledged to continue fighting this scourge that is affecting sport.” and jeopardizes the image of Spain.” , a hospitable country”. Leite later met with federation president Luis Rubiales, with whom he agreed “that racism has no place in football”.
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