Spain’s main football supporters’ association has warned of the “risk for female fans” in Saudi Arabia after the partners of Real Mallorca players alleged they were “harassed” during their Supercopa de Espana semi-final on Thursday.
Other fans, speaking to various Spanish outlets, allege women were “inappropriately touched without consent”.
Mallorca were defeated 3-0 by Real Madrid with Cristina Palavra and Natalia Kaluzova, the partners of Mallorca’s Dani Rodriguez and Dominik Greif respectively, among those making allegations about fans’ conduct after the match in Jeddah.
“We were with our children and there was no security,” Palavra told Esports IB3 after the match. “The truth is that the guys from this country (Saudi Arabia) started taking photos of us up close and harassed us. Natalia, Dominik Greif’s wife, was here too.” Palavra said they felt “disoriented because nobody was protecting us.”
Kaluzova told Marca of their attempts to leave the stadium: “A group of people came towards us and made videos of us, they pushed us, they insulted us in Arabic, they recorded us without consent and there were attacks.”
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