2023-06-20 21:02:36
Vinicius in a friendly with Brazil on Saturday June 17 (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
The racist controversy that Vinicius experienced on May 21 at the Mestalla is still going strong. Instead of appeasing the spirits so heated by the insults and gestures against the Real Madrid footballer, one of the lawyers for those investigated for what happened has now contributed to adding fuel to the fire: he has declared that those who attacked the Brazilian was only “scratching their armpits” and that what happened “is not a problem of racism”.
The lawyer Manuel Izquierdo has granted an interview to the program Esports Migdia, of Valencia Capital Radio, in which he has made these statements. “My client is accused of a hate crime for scratching his armpits,” he reiterated, considering himself “outraged” with Valencia for what happened: “They have screwed up the life of an 18-year-old boy. My client has a degenerative disease and goes to the countryside to enjoy. The situation is very serious, because they have banned him from entering for life.
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Izquierdo has also taken advantage of this radio intervention to openly criticize Vinicius, even stating that “he has an education problem”, in addition to “cool attitudes”. “I hope that we can be very close to the end of that (racism). I know it is difficult, but we are going to continue the fight, all together, ”he acknowledged, before this interview and while he was concentrating on Brazil, the Madrid striker.
Vinicius takes a picture with the fans after his last match with Brazil (REUTERS/Albert Gea)
This Monday, EFE reported that two of the three young people between the ages of 18 and 21 who were arrested as alleged perpetrators of the racist episode against Vinicius acknowledged before the judge their gestures towards the striker, according to them in response to alleged provocations by the player. On the other hand, they denied that they came to insult him.
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The statement that was postponed, until July 11, was that of the defendant whom Manuel Izquierdo represents precisely. “This has been taken out of context, it was a specific problem, they are three young kids, they do not belong to any radical gang, they are normal people, this has nothing to do with a hate crime,” said the lawyer as he left the court. .
“These kids have been taken as the scapegoat of a general cause against racism, and what these three boys are accused of could be accused of many other spectators, who were sitting even in other nobler parts of the stadium,” Izquierdo also added in the statements collected by EFE. “It was clearly seen that (Vinicius) was provoking the stadium and even confronted the fans,” said another of the defense lawyers, Juana Blázquez, along the same lines.
Vinicius exemplifies the gestures against him at Mestalla (REUTERS / Pablo Morano)
Vinicius is scheduled to declare next Tuesday, June 27. The day before, the security guards present at Mestalla when everything happened will do so as witnesses. According to EFE, LaLiga has presented to the judge several videos of Madrid’s arrival at the stadium that would reinforce the thesis of racist insults towards the footballer. Which could cause the cause to expand in regards to what happened outside the compound.
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