This week it was announced that three fans of Valencia were sentenced to eight months in prison and two years without entering any football stadium for the racist insults they hurled against Vinicius in May last year Mestalla. SA Nico Williams He had to suffer a similar thing Metropolitan in April.
The footballer of Athletic expressed in ‘Great Game of COPE’ that it is “a before and after” on a legal level. A precedent, that of punishing those who commit this kind of act, which he sees as positive: “When you insult and stay away, more people will continue to do it. “It’s seen that the law is harsher, that people take it more seriously.”
But what the little boy wants Williams is to understand the reason. “Instead of condemning them, I want to know why they did that. I always think about it. After the game I was a little affected in that sense, knowing what went through their minds to tell me that. “I don’t know if it’s because of the color of my skin, if it’s because of taking me out of the game.” The attacker would love to get “an answer,” however, he knows the difficulty: “I doubt he’ll get one.”
Nico considering that these individuals can also reason. He sees this as a step to deal with the problem of racism he is experiencing. Spain. “If you talk to people and open their minds, I doubt they think everything is black or white. You have to reason with people, introduce them, make them empathize with you. This is important. Maybe he doesn’t know you, he doesn’t know African culture, Latin American culture. We have to teach them, let them discover the world. With that, many mentalities will change,” argued the Athletic.
Source: La Verdad
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