Santiago’s presidential delegation announced a sanctioning process on Friday to Colo Colo for “multiple regulatory breaches” in the party of the Copa Libertadores played at the stadium Monumental and that was canceled this Thursday by incidents in which there were two deaths.
“The delegation team, during the land supervision process, detected multiple regulatory breaches, so the institution will use its power to instruct a sanctioning process to the organizing club,” they said in a statement.
He Cacique It will be penalized by the authority that regulates sporting events within the southern country and awaits for the decision of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), which will take the Disciplinary Commission for the application of the Regulation.
In the match for the second date of the E group of the continental contest against the Brazilian Fortaleza there was an avalanche of fans of the Albo club that tried to enter the stands without tickets before the beginning, an event in which two fans of 12 and 18 years died crushed.
Subsequently, when the game was tied without goals in the 72nd minute there was an invasion of barristas to the playing field that stopped the duel as a claim to the deaths of these fans.
In the document issued, the capital authority assured that the club should have 460 private security guards and 64 metal detectors, among other measures.
In addition, they reported that since “on Thursday, April 3, the measures for the organizer had set. Everything through a coordination meeting in which Safe Stadium, Carabineros, Black and White participated, and the Metropolitan Public Transport Department.”
According to local press information, the directive of Colo Colo He met this Friday afternoon to begin to evaluate all the legal repercussions that will have what happened, including the one that will take Conmebol and announced Thursday.
“Taking into account that all the processes established in the Club Manual were followed, the case will be referred to the judicial organs of Conmebol for future determinations,” they reported in a statement.
In it Caciquewhich is in the middle of its centenary, fear for the magnitude of the punishment beyond a loss of economic points and sanctions, as it could mean an elimination of the aggravated tournament by the recidivism of the bad behavior of its fans.
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The repercussions on the club’s image also begin to appear, after the German sports brand Adidas withdrew the campaign for the 100 years of the team from its official channels, the Chilean press reflected.
The team’s clothing is made under this emblem, and on Thursday night for the match they premiered the allusive shirt to the Centenary and was already on sale.
The measure taken by Adidas implies that fans interested in buying or seeing the team uniform, have to directly enter the Colo Colo section for it, as their visibility was minimized.
