The Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has initiated some investigative proceedings in relation to the racist chants that were heard both outside and inside the Atlético de Madrid stadium, the Civitas Metropolitano, against the Real Madrid player Vinicuis Junior The last Sunday.
The investigation has been opened following a dstatement of Movement against Intolerance, which collected what happened in the derby about Vinicius and which was widely reproduced on social networks and urged the public ministry to act against possible hate crimes. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, in principle it is about deciding if there was “a crime related to the exercise of fundamental rights and public freedoms.”
The Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Police to analyze the recordings about these facts in order to identify the people who used racist insults. He wants me to report, in each case, whether those named have any kind of relationship with violent groups or extremist ideological movements. Also review if they have been previously identified for a similar incident.
Likewise, he asks the Police to verify if more episodes of racist overtones against Vinicius were repeated inside the stadium and, in this context, he has requested information from the Atlético de Madrid security services, as well as the arbitration record of the match.
As this newspaper reported, around 8:00 p.m., dozens of Atlético fans gathered in the outer area of the south end began to sing “Vinicius you are a monkey, Vinicius you are a monkey”, just before the match, on the 18th. of September.
They did it repeatedly and with significant sound power. Inside the stadium, in the press box, an area quite far from where the racist chant was taking place, it was perfectly heard. The images that some present recorded also included the choirs and were reproduced in various accounts on social networks.
