Parliament: The nickname, the ‘hood “and the most severe punishments, at the center of the parliamentary’ controversy ‘

At the forefront of the discussion of measures to deal with fan violence, which is evolving in plenary, are the strictest provisions for violent offenses on the occasion of sporting events, including the provision that makes it a crime to enter a sports facility during a sporting event, with facial features covered, in order to prevent one from being detected and recorded by the video recorders. At the center of the discussion is also Article 68 of the bill, which adds to the Penal Code a provision which does not suspend the penalties that are imposed nor are they changed in any way.

“The framework for the Clubs is being tightened. We are tightening the nickname, that is, the ban on the suspension and conversion of deprivation of liberty sentences for criminal offenses of violence, on the occasion of sporting events,” said ND MP Dimitris Kouvelas. last summer, with law 4809. “The context of the penalties becomes stricter and a special criminal offense is introduced for those who, during sports, have covered their facial features, making it difficult to record, detect and identify “, said Mr. Kouvelas, who also underlined that the bill implements a proposal that he had formulated so that every amateur club, every PAE, every OEM to bear the burden of their responsibility.

“The stadium should be a celebration and not a battlefield. So we, too, show a direct red card to the hooligans. The need for the elements of sport, entertainment and fair play to prevail in sports and especially in football is becoming more relevant than ever.” , said the ND MP Iason Fotilas and underlined that the bill, with the measures for the confrontation of the fan violence, aims at the elimination of the violence from the field of sports.

“We do not want stadiums to be places of violence instead of places of mental and physical development,” said ND MP Noni Dounia, who advocated the introduction of tougher penalties and a strict Club operating system to make it easier to control.

“We have a responsibility to create a safe sports environment, without blind violence, without terror, without fear for families and their children who go to see a sports match,” said ND MP Athanasios Lioupis and stressed that the government is consistently serving the consolidation of professional and amateur sports, to prevent violence. The MP was in favor of banning the suspension of sentences for those convicted of violent offenses, on the occasion of sporting events. Mr. Lioupis defended the provision for not covering the face because, as he said, the goal is to prevent criminal activity.

SYRIZA MP Sia Anagnostopoulou referred to the shocking presence of Alkis Kampanos’s mother who said, 24 hours after the brutal murder of her son, “I have no hatred in me, for those who did what they did. I feel sorry for these children and in the way of the mother, because they never knew love “. “This is where our discussion should start,” said Sia Anagnostopoulou, “if we want to see what really happens. Let’s see why we have violence in adolescence and post-adolescence.” The MP referred to the Golden Dawn pockets in a school in Thessaloniki and pointed out that the problem of fan violence is a social, political, cultural and sports phenomenon. “But, instead of the government starting from the root of the problem, it brings a copy paste bill of the New Democracy concept” it hurts my head, I cut my head “”, said Sia Anagnostopoulou.

Movement for Change MP George Kaminis accused the government of tackling the phenomenon of fan violence with piecemeal initiatives, without a plan. Referring to the return of the same name, the MP of the Movement for Change said that “this whole discussion is reminiscent of the abolition of university asylum, where the government declared that it would immediately solve the issue of lawlessness in universities, with the university police, which did not happen “.

KKE MP Ioannis Delis pointed out that all the previous years “suppressed” the repressive measures, but did not yield the minimum. On the contrary, as Mr. Delis said, the action of groups that are reminiscent of the action of the raiding battalions is highlighted, because the laws that are passed do not touch the basis of the problem, that is, commercialization, entrepreneurship in sports.

“Teams have huge responsibilities. They have the keys and they have to decide who has them in their shops,” said Hellenic Solution parliamentary spokesman Konstantinos Hitas, who asked the government to put the knife to the PAE’s neck, because only they can to clean their shops “. Mr. Hitas said that “the toughening of the sentences is in the right direction” but he wondered: “But if it is winter and I go, who am not a hooligan, and I put on my hood, it rains and I put on my hood, this is a criminal offense “I mean, the problem in Greece is not the non-existence of laws but that the laws are not implemented”, said the parliamentary representative of Hellenic Solution, noting that there is a framework for the control of those who enter the stadiums.

SOURCE: AMPE