FC Barcelona won 5-1 against Hungarian Ferencvaros on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Champions League. One of the goals was by Ansu Fati. The 17-year-old got very good reviews for his performance, but the Spanish daily ABC went a step too far in the post-match commentary. Now journalist of the magazine Salvador Sostres will answer for the racist attack.
Salvador Sostres from the Spanish magazine “ABC” slightly exaggerated the comparison used in his text. He compared Ansu Fati to … black street vendors doing illegal business in the streets of Barcelona.
– Ansu Fati has something similar to a gazelle while running. He looks like a young black street vendor – the kind you’d see him running down the main avenue of Barcelona when the policemen chased him – wrote Sostres.
– Postcards depicting the jungle in the middle of the city. Now that doesn’t happen anymore because of Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona. The criminals are the policemen, not the salesmen who no longer have to run away quickly. It is true that without tourists, their business goes downhill – added.
People associated with FC Barcelona reacted sharply to these words. The club has announced legal action against the journalist due to the racist attack. Antoine Griezmann, in turn, took the floor in social media.
– Ansu is a unique child who deserves respect just like every human being. Not for racism and not for bad education – wrote the French, quoting Sostres’s text.
