LaLiga has announced that it will report the alleged racist insults received by the Equatorial Guinean to the delegate prosecutor for hate crimes of the Granada Provincial Prosecutor’s Office Carlos Akaposide of Cádiz, during the game that both teams played this Monday night.
LaLiga informs of its claim in a statement issued this morning in the face of the events that occurred in Nuevo Los Cármenes in case these constituted the crime defined in article 510 of the Penal Code.
Specifically, when Akapo He was heading to the bench after being replaced in the clash and passed by a stadium background, a Granada fan made a racist gesture at him in which he imitated the movement of a monkey, an attitude that Movistar cameras captured and that the footballer criticized to the fan
“LaLiga has been working since yesterday night to locate the fan who allegedly uttered the insults, together with Granada CF and the Police Security Coordinator,” the club’s management said.
In the public chapter in the record of the collegiate Jose Maria Sanchez Martinezhe points out that at the end of the game the Cádiz delegate informed him that in the 59th minute, after the substitution of Akapo“he received insults and gestures against his person from the public located at the back where he was leaving the field of play”, of which, according to the document, no member of the refereeing team was witness “when the match was in play”.
Own Akapo He indicated emphatically in a message on his social networks that “RACISM must be eradicated. It is unfortunate that today in 2022 there are acts like this on a soccer field. We must also set an example from the stands, I know there have been 4 assholes & mldr ; to call them in some way but we cannot give that example to the children and to all the people”.
Likewise, LaLiga recalls that “as it has done on previous occasions, such as the racist insults received by the player Inaki Williams or by Vinicius jr.will appear as a private prosecution to cooperate in the fight against any type of act, or racist or xenophobic behavior” and that “he has been promoting the positive values of sport and fighting against this kind of behavior for years, denouncing them before the pertinent instances within their competencies”.
Granada published a statement last night in which it assured that it strongly condemns “all acts of racism” and will not tolerate “any behavior in its stadium that reflects an intolerant or discriminatory attitude towards the players or fans” who come to its field.
In addition, he also specified that he had initiated an investigation in this regard and that “he will take the pertinent measures to firmly sanction this conduct that does not represent the values of Granada CF or its fans.”