”Acts in Peru against Vinotinto will bring sanctions from FIFA”: Lawyer Edgar Becerra – Barquisimeto News

Events that occurred in Lima, a city in which it is estimated that around 1 million Venezuelans live and in which a large part had the opportunity to go to the hotel where the vinotinto soccer players gathered to receive them in one of the most important squares in Lima. the capital: The Plaza de Armas and in which the deep love that the “llaneros” feel for our land was noted. However, not everything went as expected.

After the songs and celebrations in said squarethose Venezuelan fans who went with immense joy to the National Stadium, received news that evidently the prominent Barquisimetano lawyer: Edgar Augusto Becerra, argued the possible sanctions that could fall on the Peruvian Football Federation with the statutes of the FIFA that the acts carried out in Lima go against Human Rights.

Prohibition of free entry

It was about the prohibition of freely entering the venue where Peru vs Venezuela was played, because the Peruvian police carried out an immigration control within the facilities to check the almost 10,000 fans in a “controversial” identity check. red wines

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”The FIFA statute establishes the prohibition of discrimination in its article 4, while in article 3, it indicates that the International Federation of Association Football protects Human Rights.” Edgar Becerra highlighted

FIFA is against discrimination

”The events that occurred in Peru, against the fans of the Creole team by the Peruvian State and even the Football Federation of said country, will undoubtedly bring consequences and sanctions by the FIFA”. The lawyer of the Lara State Football Association

Becerra stressed that the South American Football Confederation is not responsible for the Qualifying matches “However; It should be remembered that this is an event endorsed by the International Federation of Association Football and therefore, CONMEBOL is not the organizer of these matches, consequently it is FIFA that sanctions.”

”In fact, in the FIFA ecosystem, both the disciplinary code and the code of Ethics, establishes the prohibition of discrimination inside or outside the stadium.” The lawyer recalled

Venezuela was also ‘denied’ to refuel the plane

After the mistreatment suffered by fans and players inside the National Stadium in Lima, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Eduardo Gil denounced that the government of Peru denied on Wednesday the recharge of combustible to the plane of the Venezuelan Soccer Team to begin their return to the country.

After having faced each other, and after having been mistreated by the Peruvians, a representation of Vinotinto players were able to fly to Maiquetía and be received by a crowd of people. Alexander González and Jefferson Savarino were in charge of waving the flag. tricolor of Venezuela.

Sanctions

”Evidently, there must be financial sanctions and sanctions for members who do not respect and promote these discriminatory acts, because in all its aspects from the statutes, disciplinary code and ethics, because the legal system of FIFA is very severe. with this type of act”. The interviewee Edgar Becerra reported

Editorial: Edwin Sports Hevia / @edwinhevia / Barquisimeto News