“The Athletic Club has received from the competent authorities the report with the identity of 15 people who participated in violent acts in Rome (10 people associated with Herri Norte Taldea and 5 belonging to the Ultramarine del Girondins de Bordeaux).” This is how the new statement released from Ibaigane began in relation to the incidents that occurred at the Olympic Stadium during the visit of the lions to Rome on the first day of the Europa League.
Two of these fifteen people are members of Athletic, so those responsible for the club will continue to provide the Disciplinary Commission with the corresponding report from the same “to proceed with the initiation of the corresponding disciplinary proceedings.” The red and white entity also clarified in its note that “due to the seriousness of the events that took place and to avoid the risk of making new behaviors of this type, the Athletic Club does not have a specific veto on the purchase and sale of tickets for matches that will be held outside the club’s facilities”.
From Ibaigane, it was clarified that the rest of the thirteen people identified in the report are not members of the Athletic Club, but “for the same purpose, they will be prevented from accessing the San Mamés stadium and the Lezama facilities and, also, they will have “The purchase and sale of tickets for matches held outside the Athletic Club facilities is prohibited indefinitely.”
The entity currently led by Jon Uriarte also clarified that “those who collaborate with any of them so that the latter do not comply with the measures or avoid their application (such as, for example, facilitating a ticket or providing a card to access the a match) will also answer for this fact and the same measures (banning access and ticket sales) that they helped avoid in the same period of time will be applied to them. The red and white club will be “claimed from to the perpetrators of the incidents the economic consequences caused by their actions.”
This second statement from Athletic concludes with a reiteration from Ibaigane of “its commitment to zero tolerance for any kind of violence, and the club will continue to work with the authorities to ensure that our stances and the visiting stances where we go to support The team is an example of coexistence, respect and sportsmanship”.
A few hours before the publication of this letter, Athletic itself issued another note in which it announced the financial sanction of 30,000 euros and the ban on the sale of tickets for the next match imposed by UEFA after the aforementioned incident last September 26 in Rome.
Source: La Verdad
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