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An incident in January led to arrests following the media storm that ensued after Vinicius was racially abused on Sunday against Valencia.
The Spanish police have arrested four suspects alleged to have hung an effigy of Vinicius ahead of the Madrid derby in January.
The arrest follows the storm that hit Spanish football in the past few days due to the Brazilian international suffering racist insults in Real Madrid's 1-0 defeat to Valencia at the Mestalla on Sunday.
What happened
On the morning of the clash between Los Blancos and their local rivals Atletico Madrid back in January, an effigy dressed in Vinicius's Real Madrid jersey was hung over a bridge in the city.
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The heated clash saw the former Flamengo forward get racially abused before and after the game.
Recently, the winger was subject to racial abuse, which sparked global outrage and inquiries into Spanish football's stance against racism.
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