Four people were arrested on Tuesday (May 23rd) in Spain as part of the investigation into the hanging at the end of January of a mannequin bearing the image of Real Madrid striker Vinicius Junior, police said. These arrests come two days after new racist insults uttered against the Brazilian star during a match in the Spanish football championship, which sparked a wave of indignation in the country and abroad. These four people, arrested in the Spanish capital, are accused of a “hate crime”, a criminal category including racist crimes in Spain, the Spanish police said in a press release. The model wearing a Vinicius Junior jersey was found hanged on January 26, the day Real Madrid won 3-1 against Atlético Madrid in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals, under a banner bearing the inscription “Madrid hates Real”.
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Foot: in Spain, four people arrested for hanging a mannequin bearing the image of Vinicius
