The Provincial Court of Madrid will judge from Monday the four accused of placing near the Sports City of Valdebebas a doll hanging from a bridge with the Real Madrid Vinicius soccer shirt next to a banner with the legend “Madrid hates Real”.
The Prosecutor's Office asks in their provisional conclusions that are sentenced to 4 years in prison for a crime of threats and another against fundamental rights. On Monday, only the Vinicius declaration will take place and the trial will resume on June 23 with the interrogations to the defendants and the rest of the witnesses.
Sources from the Prosecutor's Office have explained that the beginning of the trial was set for June 23 but coincided with the participation of Real Madrid in the World Cup of Football Club, which will be held between June 15 and July 13 in the United States, and the possibility of declaring by videoconference for the hourly difference was rejected.
The events occurred on January 26, 2023, before the Copa del Rey football match at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid was played, when several people that the Prosecutor's Office identifies as members of the Atlétic He hates real. “
The Court of Instruction number 28 of Madrid opened an oral trial for these facts – at the end of 2023 – against four accused of an alleged crime against fundamental rights and public freedoms in its modality against dignity, in competition with a crime against moral integrity, and for a crime of non -conditional threats.
The magistrate formulated the accusation raised by the Prosecutor's Office and also the one that made the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the National Professional Soccer League.
The Public Ministry, as recalled on Friday the Madrid Prosecutor's Office, imputes a crime of threats and another against fundamental rights and public freedoms, and asks for 4 years in jail and joint compensation of 6,000 euros for moral damages caused to the footballer.
The Prosecutor's Office explains in its accusation brief that in the morning from January 25 to 26, 2023 The four members of the “Ultra” group Front Atlético, which is “ideologically identified with the extreme right”, agreed to perpetrate an action before the Copa del Rey match began that was going to be played at Santiago Bernabeu stadium between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid.
Thus, “put by common agreement”, went to a bridge on the M-11 road near the Madrid Sports City, “place that also has a wide visibility for all the users of that road.”
Once there, “as unequivocal shows of contempt and rejection of the victim's skin color and moved by a mood to undermine their feeling of tranquility,” a fan -type dummy mannequin of about 165 centimeters high, skin and black hair, hung up with a rope. The doll carried a Real Madrid shirt, with the name on the back of the Vinicius player and with his dorsal, as well as some weight stones tied with insulating tape in what his ankles would be.
In addition, they hung a red cloth banner with soft letters with the motto “Madrid hates the real”, 12.90 meters long and 1.70 meters wide. Shortly after, one of them, Apr, “By way of claiming and justification of the action”published on the social network X (formerly Twitter), a first photograph of the bridge where the banner and the hung doll appeared, which went viral, and later published another.
The Prosecutor's Office recalls that the investigating judge left the investigated in provisional but decreed prohibition of approaching the player and prohibition of approaching less than 100 meters from the stadiums of Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid during the celebration of the football matches that they play according to the professional football league calendar, and to approach less than 1,000 meters of all the stadiums of the League.
