The photo with closed fist, up. It is without words, but with the power of images, Juan Jesus’ reaction to the sentence that acquitted Acerbi. The Napoli player changed his Instagram profile photo with an image that recalls the Black Power battles against racism, of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the podium of the 1968 Mexico Games with their fists clenched. And also taken up, in recent years, by the Black Lives Matter demonstrations
Napoli’s harsh statement: “We are stunned”
“Mr. Acerbi was not sanctioned. At this point the culprit should, for sporting “justice”, be Juan Jesuswho allegedly accused a colleague unfairly. It is not reasonable to think that he misunderstood. The principle of greater probability of an event, widely visible from the dynamics of the facts and his excuses on the pitch, which is taken into consideration in sports justice, disappears in this sentence. We are stunned. Furthermore, if what happened on the pitch, as the sentence says, “is certainly compatible with the expression of insults directed… by the Inter player, and not ignored in their offensive and threatening tenor by the same”, why not impose on this last any sanction? Why, then, does the sentence always say, “since proof of the offense has certainly been achieved”, no decision was taken by the sporting “justice” in this regard to punish the person responsible? We are even more stunned. Napoli will no longer adhere to mere façade initiatives by football institutions against racism and discrimination, we will continue to do them ourselves, as we have always done, with renewed conviction and determination.
#iostoconjj”
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