Police have arrested four people on suspicion of hanging a mannequin in a Vinicius Jr shirt from a Madrid bridge.
The Real Madrid star was subjected to vile racist abuse in Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at Valencia. But detectives - who have been hunting the supporters who hung a blow-up Vinicius lookalike doll with a noose round its neck off the bridge ahead of his team’s January 26 Copa del Rey quarter-final against Atletico de Madrid - were said to have identified six members of a right-wing fan group of Real Madrid’s arch-rivals earlier this year.
Confirming the arrests, a Spanish National Police spokesman in Madrid said: “National Police officers have arrested four people in Madrid as the suspected authors of a hate crime for hanging a mannequin with Vinicius’ shirt from a bridge. Three of the detainees are active members of a radical Madrid club fan group.
