{"id":481203,"date":"2025-09-03T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/an-espanyol-fan-accepts-a-year-in-prison-and-two-without-going-to-football-for-racist-insults-to-inaki-williams\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:20:08","slug":"an-espanyol-fan-accepts-a-year-in-prison-and-two-without-going-to-football-for-racist-insults-to-inaki-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/an-espanyol-fan-accepts-a-year-in-prison-and-two-without-going-to-football-for-racist-insults-to-inaki-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"An Espanyol fan accepts a year in prison and two without going to football for racist insults to I\u00f1aki Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"Barcelona (EFE).- An Espanyol fan has accepted a year in prison and a two-year ban from attending football matches on Wednesday for booing with racist shouts and gestures at Athletic Bilbao’s black footballer I\u00f1aki Williams, in a LaLiga match at the Cornell\u00e0-El Prat stadium in January 2020.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Racism in Spanish football: six convictions in the courts in just over a year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe defendant, K.G.B., has accepted before the sixth section of the Barcelona Court a sentence of one year in prison and a fine of 1,086 euros for a hate crime, after reaching an agreement with the Prosecution, which initially requested a sentence of two years in prison, as well as with the League, which is the prosecution in the case.\n\nThe RCD Espanyol supporter, who was the first football fan to be reported by the Prosecutor’s Office for hate crimes due to racist insults uttered in a sports stadium, could avoid imprisonment if the Barcelona High Court so agrees in its ruling.\n\nThe sentence, which the sixth section has imposed ‘in voce’ and is already final, includes four years of disqualification from working in educational or sports-related fields and two years of prohibition from approaching a football stadium of any category.\n\nMonkey gestures and sounds<\/strong>
The racist incident occurred on January 25, 2020, during a League match between Espanyol and Athletic Club in Cornell\u00e0-El Prat, when between 2:26 p.m. and 2:28 p.m. I\u00f1aki Williams, a black player from the visiting team, received boos and racist insults when he was substituted.\n\nSpecifically, the Prosecution maintains in the indictment that this Wednesday the investigated party fully assumed, part of the Espanyol fans booed the black footballer simulating the gestures of primates and repeatedly shouting “uh, uh, uh, uh”, onomatopoeia with which they intended to imitate the sounds of monkeys.\n\nThe boos came from a part of the white and blue stadium located in sector 108 of the stands, where K.G.B., of Spanish nationality, was located, who “personally, among many”, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, acted “with evident contempt for the black color of the player’s skin”.\n\nThe defendant shouted and staged “racist gestures of contempt” against Williams, generating in the footballer “feelings of frustration, shame and humiliation” with the consequent impairment of his dignity, according to the account that the defendant has accepted this Wednesday.\n\nDue to the agreement reached between the defense and the prosecution, the Court has issued a sentence without the need to carry out the rest of the trial evidence, which included the testimony of I\u00f1aki Williams himself.\n\nWilliams felt \u00abhumiliated\u00bb<\/strong>
During the instruction of the case, the Athletic Bilbao footballer assured the judge that he felt \u00abhumiliated\u00bb by the racist insults and confessed to feeling indignant that events of this nature continue to occur in the 21st century.\n\nThe case for the racist insults against I\u00f1aki Williams was opened following a pioneering lawsuit by the then Barcelona prosecutor Miguel \u00c1ngel Aguilar – now a prosecutor of the Supreme Court against hate crimes and discrimination and the first in Spain to coordinate that specialization – after a complaint filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office by the National Football League, which appeared as a plaintiff.\n\nThe Prosecutor’s Office commissioned an investigation to the Mossos d’Esquadra, who managed to identify the alleged perpetrators of the insults after examining the images from the security cameras and thanks to the information provided by RCD Espanyol about the holders of the locations from where the shouts came.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barcelona (EFE).- An Espanyol fan has accepted a year in prison and a two-year ban from attending football matches on Wednesday for booing with racist shouts and gestures at Athletic Bilbao’s black footballer I\u00f1aki Williams, in a LaLiga match at the Cornell\u00e0-El Prat stadium in January 2020. You may be interested in: Racism in Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481204,"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],"class_list":["post-481203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-racism","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21bl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/williams-racismo.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\/williams-racismo.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481203","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=481203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}