The legal battle between the old glories of Ultras Sur reaches the Supreme Court with a sentence of two years in prison

The battle between former members of Real Madrid’s Ultras Sur has reached the Supreme Court. The judges will decide in the coming months whether to admit or reject the appeal of a former leader of the Peña Veteranos, chaired by José Luis Ochaíta and which brings together former leaders of the Bernabéu ultra group, against his two-year prison sentence for taking almost 100,000 euros from the group. The prosecution and the association have asked for his sanction to be confirmed while the convicted man defends, appeal after appeal, that Ochaíta and the rest of the association knew and approved that those tens of thousands of euros would come from the accounts of the club to end up in those of the accused’s mother.

The Veteranos supporters’ club was founded after Real Madrid decided to expel the Ultras Sur from the stadium stands. Decades of violence and, at times, cronyism with the club, ended with former leaders of the far-right group grouping together around a supporters’ club that, after decades of violence and internal struggles with younger Nazis for control of the stands, rejects violence but has its own wars, albeit economic ones.