The State Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sports has proposed two fines of 20,000 euros for Club Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla FC for the massive throwing of toilet paper rolls at meetings against the Arsenal FC (April 29) and Real Sociedad (May 4) respectively.
Go rThese paper ones accumulated in the stands of the Metropolitan Stadium and the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium and, in both cases, they caused two fires that put the safety of the fans at serious risk.
“Law 19/2007, of July 11, against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport penalizes the throwing of any object onto the field and obliges event organizers to adopt preventive measures to avoid incidents“, quotes the statement from the Ministry of the Interior.
In both cases, The official accounts of the clubs broadcast images of the start of the match with the appearance of thousands of scrolls in the stands of their stadiums. The paper He left the field of play, but remained accumulated in the stands.
The State Commission against Violence in Sports classifies the events as a serious infraction, provided for in article 21 of Law 19/2007, and requests a financial sanction for both clubs for not adopting preventive measures to avoid prohibited conduct.
