FC Barcelona, forcefully, will take measures against shouting and insulting rivals in its entertainment stands. The Barça club has informed the four groups of the Espai d’Animació of the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys —Penya Barcelonista Almogàvers, Penya Barcelonista Front 532, Penya Barcelonista Nostra Ensenya and Supporters Barça, between around 500 and 600 fans— that they will have to pay a total of 21,000 euros corresponding to the accumulated fines from last season’s incidents in the next 15 business days. The price to pay will be proportional to your presence in the stands. Not only that, but from now on, if a new incident is recorded and a new sanctioning file is opened, the cheering stands will be closed for the next match. All this, a few days before Sunday’s match, the derby between Espanyol and Barcelona, at the provisional Barça home.
A policy of zero tolerance towards radical groups and racist or xenophobic attitudes that comes shortly after what happened at the Santiago Bernabéu. Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Ansu Fati received racist insults in one of the corners of the Real Madrid stadium during the celebration of Lamine’s goal at 0-3. Both Real Madrid and LaLiga are investigating the events. And this 2024 there have already been the first convictions for xenophobia on football fields, all of them with Vinicius as the victim. That is why the club, during matches and on various occasions, plays a message on the public address system and video scoreboard against violent attitudes on the part of fans.
Barcelona itself was already sanctioned for what happened on September 19 in the first Champions League match at the Luis II stadium in Monaco, when some Barcelona fans displayed a black banner that read “Flick Heil” (Hail Flick), similar to to the message that was used in the Nazi regime. For this reason, the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee acted by applying a sanction that the Barça club had suspended for a trial period of one year from April 17 due to the racist attitude of the fans in the match against PSG. in Paris. With UEFA’s decision, Barcelona will not be able to sell tickets to its fans for the match in Belgrade against Red Star on November 6, and the club was fined 10,000 euros.
Already in Laporta’s first term, upon his arrival in 2003, the Boixos Nois were eradicated from the Camp Nou. Now, during the second, the president’s board of directors acts to try to prevent violent and discriminatory attitudes from being repeated in their own cheering stands.
