The incidents involving Deportivo Cali fans have become repetitive. This Friday, the championship's Disciplinary Committee imposed a new sanction on the club due to the bad behavior of the fans.
The start of the second half of the classic against América, on April 13, was delayed for almost an hour due to incidents in the south stand of the Palmaseca stadium.
in the spectator area located in the south stand, who threw stun bombs, syringes without needles and entire rolls of streamer onto the field of play.
“All these blunt objects endangered the physical integrity of the players and the referees. Thanks to the timely intervention of the public forces and logistics of the stadium, they were able to control the incidents in a positive way and thus start the second half,” he wrote. Roland.
The Disciplinary Committee cited Deportivo Cali as a defense, which argued that it had no responsibility for what happened.
”The Cali Sports Association fully complied with all the prevention and security measures necessary to maintain public order within the sports facilities, so the launch of these objects is now beyond the control and powers of the organizing club, therefore, the The only way these objects could have entered is by bypassing the security filters,” Cali said in his defense.
“It would not be legal for the honorable Committee to impose a sanction on the Cali Sports Association by virtue of a situation that exceeds its scope of authority.
control, such as searches of spectators. The above given that the power to carry out searches in this type of events falls exclusively on the head of the National Police,” added the club's defense.
The punishment to Deportivo Cali for the incidents
The Committee issued the punishment to Deportivo Cali. “The Committee decided to sanction two (2) dates of partial suspension of the plaza (southern tribune) and a fine of eight (8) SMMLV corresponding to ten million four hundred thousand ($10,400,000), once it was evident that the commission was accredited of two inappropriate behaviors of spectators, consisting of i) throwing objects onto the playing field and ii) acts of violence which had
origin in the south stand of the stadium,” says the bulletin.
It should be remembered that Deportivo Cali had already been punished this semester with a closed-door match after a pitch invasion in the game against Patriotas, and that in the classic against América, the lower part of the western stand was also sanctioned.
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