Chapter 64: The Great Event (II)

Lunch was still held in the hotel as originally planned, but the other members of the team gave up a table to Li Mudi, Gines and the two lawyers, and the four of them discussed what to do next while eating.

The hotel provided a buffet according to the team's request, and everyone who was already hungry took some and began to eat quietly, which was very different from the usual lively scene. And the Castile coach and his agent discussed a decision before eating the first bite of food, and held an urgent press conference in the evening to clarify the matter at noon, so that the rumors on the Internet could no longer damage his reputation and image.

After swallowing a piece of cod, Genes wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin, picked up his phone and began to arrange the venue and contact various media outlets. The media said that no one would be nervous to refuse to participate in this kind of news, which the people of the whole country are concerned about, but on the issue of venue, the two people have some different opinions. Li Mudi completely lost trust in this hotel after the security personnel concealed the truth, if it wasn't for the club's arrangement, he would have planned to directly lead the team to find another place to rest, let alone develop a conference here. Genes is open to this, he thinks that the previous things are understandable, and it is precisely because the owner of the hotel has done things that are unfavorable to Li Mudi, in order to "atone for his sins" after being exposed, it will be possible to completely turn to this side and provide Li Mudi with extraordinary convenience and help.

After temporarily convincing the signing manager, Gines made his first phone call to a police relation, and a few minutes later got the best news of the day: several passers-by who were willing to testify had been found, and two of them used their mobile phones to shoot a video that recorded everything that the scumbag named "Juan Rickey" said, and the suspicion of racial discrimination was 100% confirmed.

With this important bargaining chip in his hand, the Spanish predator who is so good at doing things that every cell naturally will not let go of the person who has just put himself together, and the second call went directly to the owner of this hotel who had been hiding in the depths and did not intend to show his head. A few minutes later, the second piece of good news was confirmed: the hotel's security guards would collectively change their tunes, admitting that they had heard all the discriminatory remarks, and would testify that Li Mudi's beating was not too harmful, and that the football hooligans had been trying to break through the defenses and posed a great threat to the players and coaches of Castile. After Juan Ricky was knocked down by his travel bag, several fans rushed up and committed violence against Li Mudi, in a very bad situation. At the same time, they will be provided with a free venue and service personnel for the evening press conference, and will do their best to cooperate with the actions of the Castilian side, and even publicly publish the above "true" information at the meeting, refute all kinds of negative statements on the Internet.

Hearing this behavior of "pointing at the deer as a horse", Li Mudi praised his agent, he is indeed black enough, absolutely familiar with the art of war, and vividly interprets the trick of "robbing while the fire is hot". And for the hotel owner, in contempt and at the same time a little admiration, although this guy's character is indeed not good, but it is not lost to a real entrepreneur, this kind of casual opinion of the rudder, firm and persistent pursuit of interests of the performance is completely in line with a wise saying of the Celestial Empire: no treacherous business, no business, no business. As far as today's behavior is concerned, he is indeed worthy of owning a large hotel of no low grade, and this kind of person will go out of his way if he can't make money.

The four of them have since been discussing the specifics of the press conference, which questions can be answered, how to answer them, and which questions cannot be answered, which need to be referred to lawyers or the police. In this way, it is natural that the speed of talking while eating is not fast, and in addition, a police officer came to inquire and report the situation, and when lunch was over, it was already half past four in the afternoon. Naturally, the rest of the team had already returned to their rooms to rest, and the scheduled afternoon tactical meeting and acclimatization training on the pitch had to be cancelled, which meant that it was completely pointless to arrive in Iren City half a day early. But if you hadn't come early, maybe it wouldn't have happened, it's fate.

The press conference was scheduled for half past eight in the evening, and before seven o'clock, the police notified the Castile group, and the reason for the incident was basically clarified. Juan Rickey's racist remarks have been brought back to the police for final questioning, and the evidence will be presented to the district attorney the next day for prosecution. As for the accusation that Li Mudi intended to commit murder that he had previously called the police, it can be completely ruled out, and his injuries were not serious, only some slight signs of concussion. However, the Castile boss is still guilty of assault and will need to be further questioned at the police station after the game, although it is unlikely that he will be convicted. Even if the worst happens, the final penalty will be replaced by social services, plus some monetary compensation. The other Real United fans who attacked Lee Muddy were not so lucky, and they will face charges of intentional injury, which will definitely be regretted by these football hooligans due to the physical injuries caused to Lee Moody.

Physical injuries? Xiao Li first touched the barely visible bruise on the corner of his mouth with his hand, and then recalled in his mind the pants with a few shoe prints on his thighs and buttocks placed on the chair in the room, and showed a mysterious smile to Officer Victor, who wanted to take him back to the police station before, and thought to himself: Well, this shameless appearance has the charm of Guo Degang back then, I like it very much.

After the incident, I don't know who posted the text message of the conflict on the Internet, and the violence related to football is naturally the news that most Spaniards will pay attention to, so it has not been a hot topic in major online media for a long time. More than two hours after the incident, there was photographic evidence, although there were only a few blurry mobile phone photos, but it was still possible to barely identify a group of people in a group, a young man in a white Real Madrid suit was trying to resist the siege of fans, among which some netizens recognized Castile players Mariano and Tejero, thus confirming the authenticity of the beating incident. Li Mudi's name instantly appeared in the headlines of major sports media, and even Madrid TV temporarily inserted a report on the incident in the afternoon news session, and before the evening press conference, the entire European football circle knew that the Castile head coach beat a Real United fan, and then was beaten by other fans, and Li Mudi's image was temporarily stinky.

The press conference took place on time in the large conference room provided by the hotel, and almost all the major Spanish sports media sent important journalists to the city of Irun, including Marca, As, Daily Sport, Le Monde Sport and even El País, Spain's largest general newspaper. In addition, the TV media did not miss this hot news, and several local TV stations in Madrid, Antena 3, Telemadrid and Irun City also came to join in the fun, and one of the latter even broadcast live, which is really not afraid of funerals.

Since the police were unable to settle the case in just a few hours, Genes did not invite the two police officers in charge of handling the incident to sit on the main platform, but sat next to him as auxiliary evidence. The protagonists of the press conference were Li Mudi, Ginés, a lawyer named Pablo Giménez and Butragueno, who hurried from Madrid, and the hotel's lobby manager temporarily acted as the host.

This hotel has been used as a reception point for several low-level teams in Yilun City all year round, and naturally has rich experience and full preparation in receiving various team affairs, and one conference room has been transformed into a special venue for holding press conferences, which is not small, but today it is still occupied by dozens of media reporters and videographers.

As soon as Li Mudi entered the room through the side door, he was almost blinded by the continuous flashing lights in the direction of the press gallery, he involuntarily stopped, stretched out his right hand to cover his slightly stinging eyes, and was hit by the lawyer who was too late to stand. Thankfully, I didn't have much strength, so I only stumbled for a while, but it also provided an interesting material for the reporters, and a new round of flashes came on again.

At the beginning of the press conference, Gines introduced the detailed process of the incident, which naturally focused on Juan Rickey's racist remarks and the violent injury of the rest of the fans against Li Mudi.

Officer Victor, as a representative of the police, then confirmed the credibility of the evidence, but because the facts of the case were not conclusively determined, he refused to ask some reporters about the punishment of those involved. The press conference then entered the free Q&A session.

As is customary, the first to ask questions was given to the most powerful media, and the reporter of El País took the microphone, got up and asked: "I would like to ask Mr. Moody Lee to answer whether the fact that you beat people has been proven, and if so, why did you not apologize in the press session just now?" ”

Li Mudi, who had been calm before, frowned slightly after hearing this somewhat ill-intentioned question, and after the host signaled that the microphone in front of him had been opened, he leaned forward, held the microphone with his hand, and responded with a serious face: "I didn't deny hitting that scum with a travel bag." Without waiting for the agent next to him to become a little surprised, he continued: "But as I said just now, I didn't want to hurt others for no reason, but he first insulted me and the entire yellow-skinned people with vicious racist language, I think it was an instinctive reaction as a human being to make such an action, do I still need to apologize to this scum?" If someone insults your country or even your human species in front of you, will you apologize after teaching him a lesson? ”

"But the use of violence is a very bad event, and as a public figure, don't you think you should apologize to the ordinary people who may have been affected by you?" The reporter was a little annoyed when he heard that his question was refuted, violating the rule that one person can only ask one question at the press conference, and once again aggressively asked questions that embarrassed the parties.

It's a pity that Li Mudi is still expressionless, and the host on the side reminded the reporter of the rules of the press conference and signaled that he could not answer this difficult question, but the protagonist still waved his hand, stared at the reporter who found fault and said: "Your words seem to have some truth, but in fact they are untenable." I didn't do it as a manager of Castile, but as a yellow-skinned Asian who had to fight back against racism when we were confronted with racism, and I wasn't a public figure at the time. Someone hurts me, I naturally have to fight back, do you Westerners still apologize in this and that situation? It's been a few years since I've been in Spain, and I really don't know what you're doing, or is that the journalist just now using double standards on us Orientals? You can only insult and infringe on our interests, and we yellow people have to keep our voices down and admit and scold you! ”