Racism against Vinicius: “Let’s stop saying we should, let’s act”, protests defender Dimitri Foulquier

2023-05-24 01:51:13

The former Rennais Dimitri Foulquier, aged 30, had entered the game for ten minutes, this Sunday in Valencia, when Vinicius Junior, the Brazilian striker of Real Madrid, was the subject of racist insults . Joined this Tuesday evening after training, the defender of the Valencian club, a native of Sarcelles, did not mince his words. He encouraged, in particular, decision makers to sit around a table to find solutions to eradicate this scourge. The Spanish police announced, for their part, the arrest in Valencia of three people suspected of having uttered racist insults against the Brazilian after the opening of an investigation by the Valencian public prosecutor’s office for “hate crime”. Four other individuals, accused of having hanged a mannequin in his likeness at the end of January, had been arrested a little earlier in the morning. Tuesday evening, finally, the competitions commission of the Spanish federation, meeting for many hours, decided not to suspend the Madrid striker yet expelled at the very end of the match. Since Sunday, the emotion aroused by this umpteenth incident has gone far beyond the Spanish borders.