• Sports.Unpunished racism: the referee ignores the racist cries against Williams in the minutes

Pioneering judicial procedure to end racism in football.

The Court of Instruction number 2 of Cornellà de Llobregat has opened an investigation into the complaint filed by the Hate and Discrimination Crime Service of the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office, coordinated by the prosecutor Miguel Ángel Aguilar, against two Espanyol fans who during a match Last season's La Liga soccer team allegedly launched insults and racist chants against the Athletic Club de Bilbao player, Iñaki Williams, because of the color of his skin.

The Public Ministry considers that they allegedly committed a crime of injury to people's dignity for racist reasons by carrying out these insults, in a novel investigation since they have never acted for this type of behavior against fans by criminal means.

The complaint points out that on the 69th minute of the match played on 25 January last at the RCDE Stadium in Cornellà in the First Division between RCD Espanyol de Barcelona and Athletic Club de Bilbao "when the visiting team player," Williams, "whose His skin is black, when he was substituted from the field of play, he received from a sector of the stands shouts of contempt towards him with the undoubted intention of humiliating him and damaging his dignity for racist reasons.

"More specifically, said expressions of contempt consisted of repeatedly reproducing the cry" uh, uh, uh, uh ", an onomatopoeia that imitates the sound emitted by monkeys and which, as is public and notorious, has been uttered on various occasions by groups of fans from different countries to undermine the dignity of black soccer players during the course of a soccer match, "remarks the prosecutor.

After informing the League of these facts before the Prosecutor's Office, the Mossos d'Esquadra was commissioned with an investigation that ended with the identification of three suspects, one of them a minor, who were in sector 108 of the stand where the insults were carried out.

For this reason, the prosecutor accuses the two adults, JCMA and KBG, "who personally, among others, uttered shouts and gestures of contempt against the player with the undoubted effect of humiliation and impairment of his dignity for racist reasons."

Now the court must summon them to investigate whether they committed this crime.

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