Madrid. Real Madrid condemned on Sunday the racist behavior of several of its fans, recorded while insulting FC Barcelona players Lamine Yamal and Alejandro Balde during the Classic on Saturday at the Santiago Bernabéu, won 4-0 by the Blaugranas.
“Real Madrid strongly condemns any type of behavior that involves racism, xenophobia or violence in football and sport, and deeply regrets the insults that a few fans uttered last night in one of the corners of the stadium,” he wrote in a statement. the Spanish club after the circulation on social networks of videos in which Real Madrid fans are heard insulting the two internationals with Spain, after Yamal scored the third goal.
The current champion of Spain claims to have “opened an investigation in order to locate and identify the authors of these regrettable and despicable insults, in order to adopt the relevant disciplinary and judicial measures.”
For its part, the Spanish soccer league also condemned “the intolerable racist behavior” and announced that it “will immediately report the insults and gestures received by the FC Barcelona players to the Hate Section of the Information Brigade of the National Police.” “.
“The League strongly condemns these events that occurred at the Santiago Bernabéu and remains firm in its commitment to eradicate any type of racist behavior and hatred inside and outside the stadiums. There is no place in sport for this scourge,” concludes the league’s statement. institution.
“‘Zero’ tolerance”
The Higher Sports Council (CSD) also reacted later, recalling that “The classic is one of the greatest spectacles in the world, a true expression of the importance that soccer has in our country. In it, as in any other event sports, expressions of violence, racism, xenophobia, hatred or intolerance can never fit in.
The CSD announced that its Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sports will meet on Monday to analyze the events.
“Neither racism nor insults nor violence have a place in the sport of our country,” Pilar Alegría, Minister of Education, Professional Development and Sports, reacted on the social network X.
}”We are not going to allow aggressions that we do not tolerate in other spaces to be normalized in sport,” said the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, about the insults to Lamine Yamal.
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), in another statement, highlighted that it works for “zero” tolerance towards this social scourge and will work with all the people and institutions that are part of sport and society to end violence and insults at sporting venues and events”.
Despite the measures adopted by La Liga and the increasingly severe sanctions adopted by clubs and authorities, Spanish football cannot free itself from racism in stadiums.
Becoming a figure in the fight against racism in football, Real Madrid’s Brazilian attacker Vinicius Junior has been the most common target of this type of insult since his arrival in Spain in 2018, but only some of these incidents have resulted in give rise to sanctions.
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