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THE CLUB CONDEMNS THE VIOLENCE

Barça's message after the tragedy in Indonesian football

Published:2/10/2022 - 13:54h

Updated:2/10/2022 - 13:54h

FC Barcelona has ruled on the violent events that took place in the Kanjuruhan stadium, where more than a hundred people lost their lives. The entity has sent some words of encouragement to the relatives of the victims

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The world of the football finds in mourning in front of the facts occurred in Indonesia, specifically in Kanjuruhan, where 174 people lost the life when trying escape of a fight in the field after a defeat of the local team, what carried to the authorities to take measures of dispersion with gases lacrimógenos that caused a stampede. The number of fatal victims could follow increasing in the next hours.

Through his distinct platforms, the Barça has sent words of solidarity to the victims to the time that refuses this type of episodes: "The FC Barcelona adds to the pain by the tragedy in the stadium of Kanjuruhan in Indonesia and refuses any act of violence inside and out of the stadiums. A sense remember for the victims and his familiar".

LaLiga Also joins to the duel that impounds to the world of the football, by what has decided that there is a minute of silence in the previous of each party, so much in the meetings of First Division as in the ones of Second and the feminine tournament of the next day to honour to the victims of this event, that has been one of the more bass in the history of the football.

How it occurred the tragedy?

In accordance with Nico Afinta, boss of the police of Java Oriental, the greater quantity of deaths produced as a result of the stampede of the fans in his attempt for escaping of the fight. These would lose the life already in the hospital after abandoning the stadium: "it Was a full space of people, that caused difficulty to breathe, fault of oxygen, that the medical team and the conjoint team tried to facilitate in the stadium".

By his part, the local federation has suspended the following parties. Also it has regretted the facts and has ordered to carry out an investigation: "PSSI regrets the actions of the fans of the Arema in the stadium Kanjuruhan. We regret it and we excuse with the families of the victims and with all by the incident. PSSI Formed immediately a team of investigation".

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