{"id":25359,"date":"2026-02-26T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25359"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:19:12","slug":"real-madrid-condemn-fan-who-appeared-to-perform-nazi-salute-before-benfica-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25359","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid condemn fan who appeared to perform Nazi salute before Benfica tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Real Madrid have launched an investigation after a supporter allegedly performed a Nazi salute before the club&#8217;s Champions League win against Benfica on Wednesday. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to the kick-off at the Bernabeu, a fan appeared to make the fascist gesture as the television cameras panned around the 83,000-seater stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fan was identified by security staff moments later and ejected from the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cq5747devq8t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Real beat Portuguese side Benfica 2-1<\/a> in the second leg of their knockout round play-off tie to progress 3-1 on aggregate to the last 16 of the Champions League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the Spanish club said they have asked its disciplinary committee &#8220;to initiate an immediate expulsion procedure&#8221; for the fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Real Madrid condemns this type of gesture and expression that incites violence and hatred in sports and society,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4ge9842n0xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have launched an i&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}