A gay rights activist in Brazil has filed a criminal complaint against Neymar after the Paris Saint Germain superstar called his mother’s boyfriend an anti-gay slur in comments leaked to the media.
The
Sao Paulo prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP it had received the complaint,
which it must now examine to decide whether to open a case against the Paris
Saint-Germain and Brazil star.
Neymar’s communications
team declined to comment on the complaint.
The case was brought by activist Agripino Magalhaes, who said on Instagram he planned to press charges against Neymar and his friends for “criminal homophobia, hate speech and death threats” over comments made in a private conversation on a gaming site.
In
the audio recording, Neymar, 28, can be heard using slurs against his mother’s
new boyfriend, Tiago Ramos, as he and his friends discuss a supposed fight
between the couple.
Ramos, 22, and Neymar’s mother, Nadine Goncalves, 52, announced in April they were dating.
Brazil’s
tabloid press was soon running lurid stories about Ramos, a model who is openly
bisexual.
Neymar
and his friends were discussing rumors that the new couple had had a violent
fight, after Ramos was hospitalized last Tuesday with arm wounds sustained at
Goncalves’s house, according to police.
Neymar said his mother had lied to her family, indicating he did not believe her story that Ramos had tripped on the stairs and cut himself on a pane of glass.
One
of his friends can be heard saying that they should assault Ramos with a
broomstick in the anus.
Neighbors
reportedly said they heard screaming from a fight at Goncalves’s house the
night Ramos was injured.
However, Neymar’s
communications team said Ramos and Goncalves had testified before the police
that the incident was a “domestic accident.”
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