The Brazilian ambassador to Spain, Orlando Leite, has requested at least five high-level meetings to discuss the diplomatic conflict generated between Spain and Brazil due to the insults to Vinicius last Sunday. According to diplomatic sources, the head of the embassy has requested meetings with the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero; to the State Attorney General's Office; the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez; the president of LaLiga and the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation.

For the moment, Javier Tebas seems to be the first to receive him. Next Monday they have arranged a meeting to discuss the racist insults to the Madrid player at the Mestalla stadium and LaLiga's reaction to the event.

The insults have generated a wave of indignation in Brazil, they cover the front pages of all the newspapers and a lot of minutes of the news on the main television networks.. Since early this Monday, the Brazilian embassy has been sending cables to the Brazilian government, whose president, Lula da Silva, already reacted this Sunday night with harsh words for what happened.

One possibility that is being considered, according to the same sources, is that the Brazilian Federal Police open a file for the insults, invoking the Brazilian international jurisdiction.

In addition, the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, stated on Monday that Brazil is considering adopting the principle of extraterritoriality if it considers that the Spanish authorities fail to take measures.

“We are studying the possibility of applying the principle known as extraterritoriality. The Penal Code provides that, in some exceptional situations, it is possible to apply Brazilian law in case of crimes against Brazilians even abroad,” the minister told reporters.

Dino clarified that for now it is a question of studying the possibilities in “the eventuality that we consider that the Spanish authorities are omitted.”

In a message he posted on his Twitter account, he clarified that the Penal Code provides that the Brazilian Justice can make use of the principle, if the Government requests it, as an “extreme remedy” for a crime suffered by a Brazilian in the outside.

According to Dino, it is a tool that can be useful “in the event of inertia by the competent authorities and that can work as a response to unfair attacks against a compatriot.”

To understand this reaction a bit, although it may not have had much legal experience in Spain, it must be taken into account that Brazil has an approximately 40% black or mixed-race population, a Ministry of Racial Integration and a very harsh law against racism.

For these same reasons, in Brazil it has been considered that the reaction of the different Spanish institutions has been very tepid in the face of insults. Among those that have sat the worst on the other side of the Atlantic, is that of Valencia itself and a statement from the Higher Sports Council where Vinicius is not even mentioned.

On the opposite side, these same sources explained that the reaction of the President of the Government and the Royal Spanish Football Federation does help to smooth things over. However, this incident is not expected to affect commercial or other relations between Spain and Brazil, although it does entail “very serious damage to the image of Spain” in that country.

Brazil expresses its “dissatisfaction” with the Spanish ambassador

For its part, the Brazilian government called the Spanish ambassador on Monday to express its “dissatisfaction” over the racist acts against Vinicius. “There was a telephone contact” with the Spanish representative, María del Mar Fernández-Palacios, “to convey the discontent of the Brazilian government at the repeated racist attacks against the player,” a source from the Foreign Ministry told France Press.

Brasilia expressed to the diplomat her “expectation that measures be taken in the case” by the Spanish government and sports authorities.