MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Franco, and the Ambassador of Brazil in Spain and Andorra, Orlando Leite Ribeiro, have reiterated their message of “zero tolerance” for racism in the meeting that both held this Friday at the CSD headquarters in Madrid.
In this meeting, José Manuel Franco and Orlando Leite reviewed the measures that the CSD has adopted after the “unfortunate” racist incidents recently suffered by the Brazilian forward of Real Madrid Vinícius Júnior.
The Secretary of State for Sport has also exposed the actions undertaken by the Spanish authorities to punish and prevent this type of attack.
As Franco explained to the Brazilian Ambassador, the CSD is playing an “active role” in the fight against violence in sport, as a member of the State Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport, whose presidency he holds during this season.
Also in the institutional agreement of the monitoring commission of the Spanish Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE), which will meet next Tuesday June 13 at the Council headquarters.
This meeting was already called before the incidents that occurred in Mestalla recently. Among the sanctioning measures adopted by the Anti-Violence Commission, the president of the CSD has highlighted the fines of 60,001 euros and a ban on access to sports venues for two years for each of the four individuals identified as the authors of the placement of a doll in reference to Vinícius on a bridge near the Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid last January.
Likewise, Anti-Violence agreed to fines of 5,000 euros and a one-year ban on access to sports venues for each of the three people who insulted and racistly gestured at this same player at Mestalla, during the match between Valencia CF and Real Madrid. of LaLiga Santander, played on May 21.
In addition to the strong condemnation of racism in sports, the president of the CSD and the Ambassador of Brazil have expressed their willingness to collaborate between the two countries in sports matters.
Among other spaces for cooperation, Brazil and Spain are part of the Ibero-American Sports Council, whose government representatives met last May in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and will do so again at the UNESCO World Conference on Sport (MINEPS VII). , which is held at the end of this June in Baku (Azerbaijan).