{"id":481200,"date":"2025-09-03T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/racism-in-spanish-football-six-convictions-in-the-courts-in-just-over-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:13:57","slug":"racism-in-spanish-football-six-convictions-in-the-courts-in-just-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/racism-in-spanish-football-six-convictions-in-the-courts-in-just-over-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism in Spanish football: six convictions in the courts in just over a year"},"content":{"rendered":"Madrid (EFE).- The sentence handed down today by the Barcelona Court against an Espanyol fan for his racist insults against Athletic Bilbao footballer I\u00f1aki Williams is the sixth issued by Spanish courts in recent months for this type of crime.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong>Last calculations to qualify in the qualifiers and first steps to forge another future<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe events being judged today took place in January 2020 at the Cornell\u00e0-El Prat stadium, when a fan was identified after shouting racist insults and gestures at the Ghanaian international player of the Bilbao team. The defendant has accepted a sentence of one year in prison and two without going to football for these events.\n\nAlthough I\u00f1aki Williams’ case was the first criminal case opened for racist insults in Spanish football, there have been other convictions for racist insults or attitudes in Spanish football since then.\n\nThe condemnation for the insults to Vinicius at Mestalla
The first of these was issued in June 2024 against three fans for their insults to Real Madrid’s Brazilian player Vinicius Jr during a match at Mestalla between Valencia and Real Madrid.\n\nThe three fans were sentenced to eight months in prison for crimes against moral integrity with the aggravating factor of hate motives.\n\nIn July 2024, another person was sentenced to eight months in prison for their insults against Vinicius himself and against his teammate Antonio R\u00fcdiger in the comments section of the sports newspaper Marca. In addition, they were banned from participating in this forum for 20 months.\n\nSamu Chukwueze<\/strong>
In September 2024, a court in Palma sentenced a man to one year in prison and a three-year ban from stadiums for making racist comments during two different matches at the Son Moix Stadium (Mallorca), played in February 2023, in one case against Villarreal player Samu Chukwueze, and in the other, again, against Real Madrid player Vinicius.\n\nIn this sentence, the judge also included the insults to Real Madrid player Aur\u00e9lien Tchouameni and the throwing of water bottles at him by a minor in a match played in May 2024 at Son Moix. The boy committed to apologize to the player, the club itself, and LaLiga and to carry out specific socio-educational activities.\n\nIn May 2025, the Provincial Court of Valladolid sentenced each of the five defendants to one year in prison for a hate crime for insulting Vinicius Jr in the football match played on December 30, 2022, at the Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla Stadium in Valladolid.\n\nVinicius’ doll<\/strong>
Last June, the four members of the ultra group Frente Atl\u00e9tico who hung a doll wearing Vinicius’ jersey in January 2023 on the eve of a derby between Real Madrid and Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, admitted the facts before the court, constituting a hate crime and another of threats, and were sentenced to penalties ranging from 14 months in prison to 22.\n\nHowever, they reached an agreement with the accusations and the prosecution to avoid going to jail and were imposed penalties of fines, disqualification, and distancing from both the player and the football stadiums.\n\nIn addition to these condemnations, also last June, a minor identified as one of the perpetrators of the racist insults to Barcelona player Lamine Yamal in the classic played at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u in October 2024 accepted the imposition of 30 hours of socio-educational tasks, as well as not attending official matches for a year, after the investigation opened by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madrid (EFE).- The sentence handed down today by the Barcelona Court against an Espanyol fan for his racist insults against Athletic Bilbao footballer I\u00f1aki Williams is the sixth issued by Spanish courts in recent months for this type of crime. You may be interested in:Last calculations to qualify in the qualifiers and first steps to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,42181,40853,40230],"class_list":["post-481200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-racism","tag-thetruthnewspaper","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21bi","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/racismo-futbol-espanol-condenas-justicia.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/racismo-futbol-espanol-condenas-justicia.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}