{"id":31100,"date":"2025-09-03T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/espanyol-fan-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison-for-racism-against-inaki-williams\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:23:18","slug":"espanyol-fan-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison-for-racism-against-inaki-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/espanyol-fan-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison-for-racism-against-inaki-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Espanyol fan, sentenced to one year in prison for racism against I\u00f1aki Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Espanyol Fan Condemned for Racism Against I\u00f1aki Williams<\/h2>\n\nA Espanyol supporter has been sentenced to one year in prison and a two-year ban from attending football events, after being found guilty of uttering racist insults against Athletic Bilbao player I\u00f1aki Williams.\n\nThe incident took place during a LaLiga match at the Cornell\u00e0-El Prat stadium in January 2020.\n\nThe defendant, K.G.B., reached an agreement with the Prosecution, accepting a sentence for incitement to hatred. Initially, the Prosecution requested a sentence of two years in prison.\n\n\n
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The RCD Espanyol supporter was the first football fan reported to the Prosecutor’s Office for hate crimes in a stadium.<\/p>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe sentence includes a four-year ban from working in the educational or sports field, as well as a two-year ban from approaching football stadiums of any category.\n\nOn January 25, 2020, during the match between Espanyol and Athletic Club, I\u00f1aki Williams was the victim of boos and racist insults when he was substituted.\n\nThe Prosecution indicated that part of the Espanyol fans imitated ape gestures and emitted sounds that were intended to emulate monkeys.\n\nK.G.B., of Spanish nationality, was identified in sector 108 of the stand, acting with contempt towards the player’s skin color.\n\nThe defendant made racist gestures and shouts, generating feelings of frustration, shame, and humiliation in Williams.\n\nDue to the agreement, the Court issued a ruling without the need for further evidence, including the testimony of I\u00f1aki Williams.\n\nI\u00f1aki Williams stated he felt “humiliated” by the racist insults.\n\nThe investigation began after a complaint from the National Football League, which was filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office.\n\nThe Mossos d\u2019Esquadra identified those responsible thanks to security cameras and information from RCD Espanyol.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Espanyol Fan Condemned for Racism Against I\u00f1aki Williams A Espanyol supporter has been sentenced to one year in prison and a two-year ban from attending football events, after being found guilty of uttering racist insults against Athletic Bilbao player I\u00f1aki Williams. The incident took place during a LaLiga match at the Cornell\u00e0-El Prat stadium in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[6653,2277,607,4298],"class_list":{"0":"post-31100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-inaki-williams","9":"tag-racism","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-spanish"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}