The postman may knock on your door one of these days if you are one of the 181,000 citizens called to be part of a polling station on July 23. Or of the 362,000 substitutes. In this case, except for force majeure, you will think about the can that it can be to spend more than twelve hours of a summer Sunday in a polling station where the air conditioning may not work. Someone has to do civic work for the collective good.
The footballer Vinícius jr. he had, for weeks, a court summons to testify yesterday about the racist insults he received in Mestalla, an issue that paralyzed the world, sparked a statement by the president of Brazil and the rabid arrests in Valencia of the alleged perpetrators, a d ‘identified by the player and the other two thanks to the security camera recordings. The match was played on Sunday, May 21.
Not all court orders in Spain progress at such a good pace…
Vinícius requested at the last minute to postpone his statement, agreed by video conference. He is on vacation in Miami. The judge agreed and since the complainant does not seem to be in much of a hurry, the statement has been adjourned sine die.
The Real Madrid star is in his right. His right to enjoy Miami during the holidays, his right to postpone a judicial declaration of an affair that transcends the player: racism in the stadiums of Spain. He has opted for the holidays, a choice that confirms – in my opinion – that Vinícius is still immature (a hypothesis that does not justify the insults he receives): Vinícius and Real Madrid were in favor of suspending the Valencia match in order to make visible the importance of the anti-racist cause. A great gesture. Now, on the other hand, they are not in favor of interrupting, at least for an hour, the vacation of the alleged victim…
It is a shame that it was Vinícius and not another more conscious footballer who led the mission to fight racism in the stadiums. The Real Madrid star seems to like this fight: the least he could do is comply with the record and not leave in evidence those who have supported him. He had managed to create a strong and transversal current so that the Mestalla incidents did not remain in a “follow, follow” typical of home referees.
With escapes like this and four gestures to the public during the coming season we will be like the day before the Mestalla clash. Far from the goal. The cause deserved more sensitivity and sense of duty. Oh, where there is a vacation in Miami, let the judicial disturbances disappear.
