Madrid (EFE) La Liga Santander.
The committee explains that after seeing the arbitration report and the report made by the Reporting Officer, the complaint from the Director of Integrity of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the complaint from the National Professional Football League, as well as the brief of allegations formulated by Real Madrid, “a series of facts have been verified, all of them accredited by the corresponding videographic evidence”.
Competition recalls that “prior to the start of the game, on the occasion of the entry of the players into the Mestalla, after getting off the Real Madrid bus, hundreds of fans who were stationed in the surroundings chanted ‘You are a monkey… Vinicius you are a monkey… you’re a monkey, Vinicius you’re a monkey’”.
The committee also narrates various moments of the game in which chants, shouts and insults to the white player are heard.
“Intolerable facts”
The committee understands that “there is no doubt that the Spanish Legal System has been endowed with legal and regulatory regulations, with constitutional coverage, by virtue of which violent, racist, xenophobic and intolerant behaviors have penalizing responses in the order criminal and administrative.
He believes that “these are intolerable facts, which deserve the greatest social, political and, when appropriate, legal reproach.”
Competition understands that “the intolerable racist character of part of the chants that were chanted, on and off the field, by a part of the fans has definitely been verified.”
“This Committee considers that it has been evidenced that, despite the efforts that the club in question has been deploying, that it has not been diligent enough in the effective implementation of all those measures that are necessary to eradicate this type of behavior and to mitigate its effects once they occur”, he indicates.
For this reason, it imposes on Valencia a sanction of partial closure of the sports venue for a period of five games and a pecuniary sanction of 45,000 euros for the commission of very serious offenses typified in articles 69.1.c), 69.2.d) and 76.1. of the Disciplinary Code of the RFEF.
The partial closure will affect the so-called Grada Kempes, and will be fulfilled in accordance with the provisions of article 57.1 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code.
Valencia will appeal a sanction that it considers “unfair and disproportionate”
Valencia will appeal the sanction imposed by the closure of the Mario Alberto Kempes stands for five games, this was confirmed to Efe by sources from the Mestalla club, which is already studying the options it has before the sanction imposed by the competition committee of the Spanish Federation without ruling out any.
From the entity they emphasize that they maintain a maximum commitment in the fight against racism and remember that from the first moment they announced the expulsion for life from Mestalla of the followers who were shown to have engaged in such behavior.
Competition leaves without effect the expulsion of Vinicius in Valencia-Real Madrid
The RFEF Competition Committee has agreed to leave without disciplinary effects the expulsion of Vinicius during the match of the thirty-fifth day of LaLiga Santander.
“Given the allegations and the videographic and graphic evidence provided by Real Madrid regarding the expulsion imposed on the player Vinicius in the 95th minute of the match, this Competition Committee considers that the alleging club indicates in an extensive document of allegations that such and as would be derived from the videographic and graphic evidence provided by various causes that distort the presumption of veracity of the arbitration act ”, indicates the committee.
The committee considers that “what happened would be part of a permanent and total impunity, during the current season, of various actions of physical and verbal aggression, by opponents and fans, against the expelled player, all this in the face of the passivity of the arbitration team , of the RFEF and of LaLiga”.
Likewise, it understands that “the action of the VAR referee would not be framed in a” human error “, since the image that he sent to the referee of the match to assess the action produced was totally partial, biased and determinant of the error of the referee in the assessment of occurred and, with it, the unjust expulsion of the player, turning the victim into an aggressor”.