Valencia and Arsenal condemn Nazi and racist gestures in Emirates Stadium

A group of Valencia fans have left a terrible impression in the Emirates when they directed Nazi and racist gestures to Arsenal fans during the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals.

Up to five Valencians insulted the home spectators in the stands by making Nazi greetings and gestures imitating a monkey.

It can be seen in a video published by Tomé Morrissy-Swan, English journalist for 'The Telegraph', in a video that has already become viral on Twitter.

 

May 2, 2019

Valencia CF has published a statement in their social media accounts in which they condemn their fans' behaviour. 

In addition, the club is trying to investigate the provocations prior to this incident and find out the identity of the fans who made the gestures. 

"In relation to the images in the stands of Arsenal Stadium appeared in social media, Valencia CF:
1. Condemns publicly in a categorical way and expresses its firmest repulsion and zero tolerance, as it has always done, towards the isolated gestures of the people located in the visiting stands and that, evidently, do not represent in any way the Valencianist fans.
2. In contact with its legal services, it is working on identifying the people responsible for the gestures, and in case they are club members, to take the corresponding disciplinary measures, for which it asks for the collaboration of the rest of the fans located in the stands.
3. Although such attitudes are absolutely unjustifiable in any case, the VCF is trying to obtain information, in the same way, on possible provocations prior to such verbal and gestural confrontation between people of the local stands" reads the statement.

Arsenal has also published a similar statement, but through a spokesman quoted by the 'BBC'. The London club has condemned the gestures and has assured that the authorities are already working to identify the culprits.