2023-06-19 08:36:43
Felipe Silveira, Personal adviser to Real Madrid footballer Vinícius Jr, has formally denounced the Police after reporting that he had received a banana from a security guard at the Espanyol stadium before the match between Brazil and Guinea.
As reported by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the Vinicius circle that has accompanied Silveira to a police station near the stadium has assured that they once again “notice How do they not consider racism a crime in Spain?
He also mentioned that what most caught his attention, after the act of racism, was “how all the people, the authorities, the security chiefs, everyone minimized it and tried to say it was normal there, that is Spanish culture and the life that follows, ”said one of the advisers.
Silveira has denounced having received a banana upon entering the stadium, when he was accompanied by three other members of Vinicius’s team, including the player’s coach, whom they it was not offered to them, due to the fact that they were white.
This incident took place during the match that served as a vindication of the fight against racism in football, with the Brazilian team wearing black for the first time in its more than 100-year history.
One of the advisers has also stated that at the police station, a first police officer who attended them alerted them that there was a possibility that the judge would see the gesture as a joke and not as an offense. A second agent regretted the fact and commented that Samuel Eto suffered racist attitudes during his professional career at Barça.
This protest arose from the latest episodes in Spanish football, with Vinícius as a regular victim and the first to claim that fight. Before the match began, there was a minute of silence against racism and the players knelt on the field of play as a gesture of protest.
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