The San Sebastian team has announced that it will not allow visiting fans to buy tickets for Sunday’s match, where they will pay tribute to Aitor Zabaleta, a San Sebastian fan who was murdered 25 years ago by a member of the Atlético Front.
FACUA-Consumers in Action has denounced the Royal Society to the Basque Consumer Institute-Kontsumobide for discrimination “on the basis of origin and/or place of residence”, by does not allow the purchase of tickets to Real Betis Balompié fans for the match that will take place next Sunday at the Reale Arena in San Sebastián.
The Basque team will pay tribute in this meeting Aitor Zabaleta, a San Sebastian fan who was murdered 25 years ago by a member of Frente Atlético. For this reason, the president of Real Sociedad, Jokin Aperribay, has justified this refusal to sell tickets to the visiting team for “to avoid a repeat of what happened last year“, when part of this ultra group from Atlético de Madrid went among the Betic fans. However, for the association, this argument is “totally unacceptable”, as it means that all Betic fans are being “criminalized”.
The association believes, among other things, that the measure to ban the entry of fans based on their place of origin or residence “is a violation of the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 of November 16which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Protection of Consumers and Users and other additional laws.
For this reason, it asks the Royal Society to withdraw a decision that represents “a clear violation of current regulations”, and urges Kontsumobide to open a file and impose sanctions on the Basque team .
Furthermore, the association informs Betis fans who have already purchased flights and hotels to travel to San Sebastián that they can report Real Sociedad to consumer authorities to claim compensation in the event that they are ultimately unable to participate in the match.
Real Betis Balompié, in response to Real Sociedad’s decision, announced through a statement that it will not sell tickets to visiting fans for the match in which both teams will play again in the second round of the championship at the Benito Villamarín. stadium.
FACUA warns the green and white club that if it finally “makes good on its threat of discrimination based on origin or place of residence”, it would also violate the aforementioned regulations regarding the defense of consumers and users.
Source: EITB
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