MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soccer authorities on Tuesday ordered Queretaro to play their dwelling video games in an empty stadium for a 12 months after followers went on a bloody rampage in a brawl that injured not less than 26 folks and made world headlines.
The punishments meted out by Mexico’s top-flight males’s soccer league and the nation’s soccer federation may even ban Queretaro followers from attending away video games for three years, league president Mikel Arriola informed reporters.
Authorities mentioned three folks stay in a important situation after Saturday’s melee throughout a recreation pitting Queretaro in opposition to guests Atlas, the reigning Liga MX champions.
Cell cellphone movies that went viral and sparked outrage in Mexico and past confirmed folks being brutally overwhelmed.
Arriola and Yon de Luisa, head of Mexico’s soccer federation, introduced the measures at a joint information convention.
“We don’t desire criminals in disguise,” mentioned Arriola, referring to organised teams of followers blamed for the violence. Such teams will want credentials to attend future video games, he added.
The prime 4 members of Queretaro’s administration group have been additionally banned from any future roles with different groups, whereas the club was fined 1.5 million pesos ($70,150).
Neither league nor federation officers addressed what triggered the violence, which spilled out from the stands on to the sector whereas lots of of individuals frantically sought cowl.
($1 = 21.3810 Mexican pesos)
(Reporting by Carlos Pacheco; Writing by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by David Alire Garcia and Toby Davis)
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