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Spain’s La Liga wants powers to shut stadiums and ban supporters over racism
THE LA LIGA president says racism in top-flight Spanish football could be cut within six months if it was granted enough power to take...
Police arrest four men for hanging dummy of Real Madrid player Vinicius from bridge in Spain
THE POLICIA NACIONAL have arrested four men suspected of hanging a dummy of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior from a Madrid area bridge in...
Real Madrid forward Vinicius calls La Liga and Spain ‘racist’ after racial insults from fans at Spain’s Valencia
REAL MADRID'S Vinicius Jr has called LaLiga and Spain racist after receiving racial slurs from the stands in Sunday's one-nil defeat at Valencia's Mestalla...
Teacher in Spain’s Cordoba province slammed for using blackface and exaggerated accent in video about Africa
A TEACHER at a school in the Andalusian province of Cordoba has been widely criticised online after a video circulated in which she appeared...
Mallorca fans in Spain racially abuse Real Madrid star Vinicius Jr for the second time in 12 months
Real Mallorca fans shamefully subjected Real Madrid football player Vinicius Jr to racist abuse for the second time in a year during their 1-0...
Spain’s Civil Guard arrests three neo-Nazis on suspicion of antisemitic hate crimes in Burgos and Madrid
THE Spanish Civil Guard this week arrested three neo-Nazis on suspicion that they had committed antisemitic hate crimes. The two men and a woman...
Hate crimes in Spain rise by 27% fuelled by pandemic and ‘radicalised’ political debate
A big rise in 2021 hate crime numbers was down to pandemic restrictions and 'radicalised' political debate according to the office of Spain's Attorney...
Spain among countries with police raids targeting hate crimes and racism across Europe
A STAND against racist and xenophobic hate speech online and elsewhere has taken place across 11 countries, with four arrests in Spain alone.
Law enforcement...
Task force set up to tackle hate crime in the schools and streets of Spain’s Costa Blanca South
HATE CRIMES and discrimination are to be tackled head on in Orihuela with a special task force within the local police.
The municipality covers many...
Man gets charged with hate crime after foul tirade at an Islamic wedding in a Costa Blanca mosque in...
AN Elche man has been arrested on hate crime charges after gate-crashing an Islamic wedding and threatening attendees.
He punched one of the congregation members...
Anyone found making racist, sexist or homophobic comments in public could face €3,000 fine in Spain’s Valencia
Under a new proposal to tackle the scourge of street harassment, Valencia City Council hopes to put a stop to conduct that 'threatens a person's freedom'
Madrid’s Retiro park just won UNESCO status but it hides a shameful secret for Spain
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for recognition of a shameful period in the history of Madrid’s Retiro park when people would come to stare wide-eyed at...
Barcelona council fines landlord €45,000 for ‘real estate racism’ after refusing to rent his apartment to a young Moroccan
BARCELONA City Council has become the first council in Spain to impose a penalty for 'real estate racism'.
City bosses fined a real estate agency...
RACIST ROW sees Spanish FA launch proceedings against Cadiz’s Juan Cala over foul tirade against Valencia’s Mouctar Diakhaby
The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has opened a disciplinary proceeding against Cadiz's Juan Cala over last Sunday's alleged racist abuse of Valencia's Mouctar Diakhaby.
Valencia's...
Valencia footballers WALK OFF pitch after ‘racist abuse’ is yelled at Mouctar Diakhaby
VALENCIA football team walked off the pitch after an allegedly racist slur directed at one of their players.
The game against Cadiz on Sunday night...
Nowhere to hide: Spain joins European action day against internet hate speech
SPAIN has joined nine other European countries in an action day against racist and xenophobic hate speech on the internet.
In the first of its...
Racist bar owner charged over colour ban in Spain’s La Rioja region
BLACK LIVES did not apparently matter for a bar owner who brazenly admitted that he refused to serve 'people with dark skin'.
Police in Logroño,...
WATCH: British comedian Jim Davidson says ‘Spain is for fat northern birds’ before telling Brits to get dinghy across...
Davidson’s career has been met with controversy since his big break in the mid-seventies on the ITV talent show New Faces
Spanish Foreign Ministry expresses concern over toppling of statues of Spanish figures in US
THE Spanish Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over the toppling of statues of Spanish historical figures in the US.
Podemos politician calls for Columbus statue to be removed from Spain’s Barcelona amid anti-racism protests
A HIGH ranking Podemos politician in Catalunya has called for the statue of Christopher Columbus to be removed from Barcelona.
Black Lives Matter protests sweep across Spain and the Costa del Sol
BLACK Lives Matter protests have swept across Spain, including on the Costa del Sol.
OPINION: Racism is alive and kicking in Spain and is not just a US problem
'YOU smell like a black.'
That's just one of the racist comments repeatedly overheard by Senegalese-Spaniard Fama Fedior, who took to Instagram last week to...
WATCH: Spanish school teacher’s vile RACIST rant at black British men on Spain train, calling them ‘monkeys’ and ‘f**king...
The men also speak Spanish to the woman, but she says that she, ‘doesn't understand anything’
Andalucian football players wear shirts printed with racist insults for protest in final game of season
Teammates have, in a tongue-in-cheek way, branded the five-year-old squad ‘the foreigners’
Spain WILL prosecute racist British man who called woman ‘ugly black b******’ on Ryanair flight
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau confirmed, this week, that Spain would continue with charges against Mesher
WATCH: Racist British man who called woman ‘ugly black b******’ on Ryanair Spain flight not charged by police
However Essex Police has said it has no jurisdiction to prosecute Mesher, as the incident occurred in Spain
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