03/11/2020 - 11:33
- Clarín.com
- sports
Arnaldo "Pitu" González has to testify before the Buenos Aires Justice, this Wednesday. It will take the investigation the prosecutor of the City, Gustavo Galante, for the anti-Semitic gestures he made last Sunday, when he was expelled in the game between his team, New Chicago, and Atlanta, by the First National. In addition, the Mataderos club footballer revealed that he will take a course to learn about the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people.
The 10 of the Torito de Mataderos was sorry. "In the cold and watching the video at home, I feel very ashamed because I am not like that. It has never happened to me to live a situation of these and I was very sad because I know that many people hurt me by getting the worst out of me. I am completely sorry for the situation that happened this Sunday, "he said in dialogue with the program" Perspectives from Buenos Aires ", by CNN in Spanish.
Gonzalez made anti-Semitic gestures when he was expelled and now he was sorry. (Photo: TV Capture).
"It was instantaneous to apologize. After the meeting we went up to the micro and instantly asked to make a video to be made public and thus apologize to the people of Atlanta and also - for the gesture I made - to the Jewish community because I am not very so much of what my gestures generated. I was very bad, so it was instantaneous, "Gonzalez said.
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After his gestures, the Chicago midfielder revealed that he now wants to learn about the history of the Jewish people and about the holocaust. "Yes, obviously. I really want to know more because I am sincere; it was only with everything that was generated and what I did that I could not fully read about the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people. I know that I apologize they are necessary. I do it so that they know how to understand me and accept them. But, in addition, so that I can get more into that. I did it without knowing and without thinking at the moment, "he said totally regretful of his gestures.
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Finally, he explained why he made those anti-Semitic gestures. "I think I got blocked. I lost track of where I was, that it was a televised game, that a lot of people were watching me and reacted in a way that I shouldn't have done. Because, as I said recently, I have to give a example also to the people of New Chicago. I’m representing a club and I didn’t do it the way I have to. So, today we don’t talk about Chicago for anything else but for this, for the incidents (of the bar.) And both me and my colleagues have to give another example, "he concluded.
Prosecutor Galante, in charge of the Western Fiscal Unit of the City, accused González for having infringed article 3 of Law 23,592 that criminalizes discriminatory acts.
This article argues that “ those who participate in an organization or carry out propaganda based on ideas or theories of superiority of a race or a group of people of a certain religion, ethnicity or color, who are participating in an organization will be repressed with imprisonment from one month to three years. have as their object the justification or promotion of racial or religious discrimination in any form ”.
From the New Chicago Athletic Club we repudiate the gestures made by the player Arnaldo González, and we will evaluate the disciplinary measures to be taken. We apologize to all fans of @atlantaoficial and the entire Jewish community.
- New Official Chicago (@NuevaChicago) March 8, 2020In the case against González, the Delegation of Israelite Associations (DAIA), the Simon Wiesenthal Latin America Center and the Jewish Lawyers Association filed as complainants .
The Pitu will be investigated from this noon, around 13, at the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The 10 of Chicago was repudiated in social networks, despite his apology.
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