A father reports to LaLiga that Barça fans harassed his autistic son for wearing a Madrid scarf

Jaime Fernández's family will not easily forget the last Barcelona-Real Madrid match, held last Saturday at the Montjuic Olympic stadium.. They live in a town near Barcelona and they went to the field to try to get tickets to see the classic, but they couldn't get in.. While the four waited at the doors of the venue, “between 20 and 30 Barcelona ultras”, they denounce, began to “harass and insult” their 7-year-old son, who has grade 1 autism, and even ended up throwing a firecracker at him. that provoked the little one's nerves. All, they insist, “because he was wearing a Real Madrid scarf”. The white club has contacted the boy's father to find out about his situation and show him all its support after the unpleasant incident.

Jaime, 35, has reported the situation to LaLiga, which will contact the family and analyze the Montjuic cameras to clarify what happened.

“We had stopped at the Dazn stand and they gave the boy some things. And since he likes white more, he chose the Madrid scarf,” explains Jaime in conversation with EL MUNDO, admitting that in his case “he is not a big football fan.”

As they went up to Montjuic, they approached one of the doors to see if they could get tickets, and their problems began.. “A group of about 20 or 25 people, about 30 years old, came and began to surround us and insult the boy, who was the one wearing something from Madrid.. They told him 'pig, dog, son of a bitch, take that off because we are going to burn it'…. “Everything in a very threatening attitude,” he summarizes.. As game time approached and the mass of people grew, they did not find any member of the Mossos d'Esquadra who could help them.

“My wife began to tell them that the child had autism, that they should be calm. But they went even higher. There someone came, took out a firecracker and threw it at the child's feet. We took it and it exploded just over a meter away. Imagine the shock. He panicked and became very ill. Autistic children are greatly affected by noise and crouched to the ground. We took the child and the little one, who is 3 years old, and we ran out of there,” he says, acknowledging that the little one, named Arkaitz, “was not well the next day either. I did not understand anything”.

A regrettable situation that, unfortunately, is not the first reported in the fields of Spanish football.