Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal receives racist insults at Bernabeu stadium

The 17-year-old midfielder was targeted during Saturday’s Clasico betwixt Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Real Madrid has launched an probe into racist insults directed astatine players during Saturday’s 4-0 location nonaccomplishment to Barcelona successful LaLiga.

Spanish media reported that 17-year-old Barcelona guardant Lamine Yamal, who is of Equatorial Guinean and Moroccan heritage, was targeted with xenophobic and racist maltreatment astatine the Bernabeu. Barcelona did not instantly respond to a petition for remark by the Reuters quality agency.

“Real Madrid powerfully condemns immoderate benignant of behaviour involving racism, xenophobia oregon unit successful shot and sport, and profoundly regrets the insults that a fewer fans uttered past nighttime successful 1 of the corners of the stadium,” Real said successful a connection connected Sunday.

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga person taken steps to tackle an summation successful racist maltreatment with measures including partial stadium closures.

Four radical were arrested and questioned successful Spain connected Thursday connected suspicion of conducting an online hatred run encouraging fans to racially maltreatment Real Madrid’s Brazilian guardant Vinicius Jr successful the build-up to their lucifer against Atletico Madrid past month.

In June, the Magistrate’s Court of Valencia issued the archetypal condemnation for racist insults successful a shot stadium successful Spain.