{"id":484063,"date":"2024-06-10T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484063"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:03:02","slug":"valencia-supporters-jailed-for-vini-jr-racist-abuse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/valencia-supporters-jailed-for-vini-jr-racist-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia supporters jailed for Vini Jr. racist abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three supporters have been sentenced to 8 months in prison and suspended from venues for 2 years over the racist abuse of Vini Junior at Mestalla in the past summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Three Valencia fans have been jailed for eight months for abusing Vinicius Jr during a La Liga game in May 2023. This the first criminal conviction for racist abuse of a footballer in Spain \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sw6kIbR2ch\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Sw6kIbR2ch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1800118939378127215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The episode \u2013 which appeared during Los Blancos\u2019 1-0 loss against Valencia &#8211; sparked uproar around the world after the Brazilian superstar identified a fan at the stands who had been racially abusing him, causing the match to be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Vini later shared his disappointment with the Spanish authorities&#8217; handling of the problem, claiming &#8220;racism is normal in LaLiga,&#8221; while the league demanded for greater powers to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 3 supporters were found guilty of a crime vs. moral integrity &#8212; aggravated by racially motivated discrimination. They were sentenced to a year in prison, reduced by 1\u20443 to 8 months, after admitting their guilt in front of the court.<\/p>\n<p>They were also suspended from watching matches live for 3 years, but again, the punishment was reduced for the same reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three supporters have been sentenced to 8 months in prison and suspended from venues for 2 years over the racist abuse of Vini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484064,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17969,17375,17968],"news_category":[137,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17970,508,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Bats fans were jailed for the racism against Vinicius Junior.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484065,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484063\/revisions\/484065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484063"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484063"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}