The 20-year-old Mallorca fan and club season ticket holderwho was identified by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the National Police, in collaboration with the Vermilion entity, after the racist insults he uttered to the Real Madrid player Vinicius Junior, on February 5 at the Mallorca Son Moix stadium, justified his behavior before the Police: “This type of insult on soccer fields is normal,” he saidwhen he was told last Saturday, at the start of the match against Villarreal, that a disciplinary file was being opened for him.
The location of the fan who first insulted Vinicius and later the Villarreal player Samu Chukweze has been a true work of craftsmanship in which the UCO and the Mallorca security service, which is in charge of its director, have participated Jose Antonio Costana, who explains to this newspaper how the process of locating the fan was. “DAZN takes the images and a voice is heard shouting ‘Vinicius, monkey’ in a specific area of the stadium. They told us where the microphone was located on the pitch and just behind it was the Lluís Sitjar stands. La Liga tells us that the voice has come out of this stands and marks a specific area for us”.
“The Police began investigations into the images from the OND (National Sports Office),” continues Costana, “and informed the Police security coordinator, Inspector Fernando Corchero, and With the drone unit, see if we can suspect anyone. They had a suspect,” she stresses.
Ten minutes from the end of the game against Villarreal, he called the Nigerian Chukwueze a “black bitch”
It remained to confirm the suspicion, which had to be confirmed last Saturday against Villarreal. And they got to work. «Before Villarreal I meet with the guards and tell them that if anyone hears racist insults against a player and detects who he is, let me know. Ten minutes from the end of the game, I was warned that there is a fan who calls a Villarreal player a ‘black puto’. Notify the security coordinator, who is in the room, and with the camera they locate him. They give me the exact description of the person, they focus on him and see that he is the same one who insulted Vinicius, “says the Mallorca security director.
When the game ends, they are monitored by camera, “and when he goes up to door 6 the police stop him, identify him, explain what has happened and the fan justifies himself by saying that insulting footballers is normal in football”, he concludes.
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The Police opened an administrative sanction on him and, for being a repeat offender, he will have to pay a double fine of six thousand euros and it is most likely that he will spend a year without entering a sports venue. Mallorca and the League have filed a lawsuit in court.
Mallorca, like all clubs, are exposed to one fan in twenty thousand behaving inappropriately. For this reason, every time insults are heard, the club notifies the public address system to invite the insults to the footballers to stop.
