The Superior Court of Sports Justice (STJD) released a report on combating prejudice throughout 2022. Of the 19 cases reported to the STDJ over the last season, 13 of them resulted in punishment after trial. According to the entity, the sum of the penalties applied reaches R$ 335,000 in fines and a total of five matches and 370 days of suspension for clubs and offenders. Of the 19 complaints made to the STDJ, six were of racial slurs, 11 of homophobic chants and two of a sexist nature. Last year, the number of cases of racial slurs, specifically, doubled in relation to the previous year. The increase in the incidence of this specific type of discriminatory act did not surprise Marcelo Carvalho, director of the Observatory of Racial Discrimination in Football (ODRF) “It was the year that football returned from the pandemic period, without fans in stadiums, and football returns more violent , with more cases of hate speech inside and outside the four lines”, explained Carvalho in an interview with TV Brasil’s Stadium program. STJD judges 19 cases of discriminatory acts, and racial injury lawsuits grow in 2022. is based on the cases denounced in the matches of all competitions organized by the CBF and that involve discriminatory, disdainful or outrageous acts, related to prejudice due to ethnic origin, race, sex, color, age, condition of elderly person or person with a disability . “This is unacceptable. We increasingly need to work together with all organizations so that racism does not enter football. Racism cannot exist anywhere in society, but in sport, which is an instrument of socialization, never. now believing that with the change in the law signed by the President of the Republic [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]which equates racism with racial injury, with a closer look at the STJD and with work that began in 2022 at CBF, I believe we have everything to move forward in the fight against racism”, believes the ODRF director.
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