The General Assembly (AG) of FC Porto had to be suspended on Monday evening due to attacks between the club members at the Dragão Arena. The images and logos went viral, questioning the absence of forces of authority.
The Porto Metropolitan Command of the PSP explained to DN that in order to be able to act in a preventive manner in a private space closed to the public, as was the case with the Porto AG, or to prevent the commission of crimes, practical knowledge required. of these crimes, which are not private, and furthermore require permission from the owner of the space to enter the space or a court order.
“The PSP, as a result of monitoring the aforementioned event, promoted security management in public spaces, with a security force sufficient to control the crowd attending the general meeting, and no conduct subject to was subject to police intervention. , neither preventive nor preemptive. active. “No situation of change in public order was registered until the end of the police action,” he informed DN, guaranteeing that “no complaint was registered until the end of the afternoon today.”
The extraordinary general meeting of FC Porto, in view of the deliberation on the approval of the new statutes proposed by the Supreme Council, turned into a nightmare. At 9 p.m. on Monday it was immediately clear that the turnout would be large. Before the scheduled time for the work to begin, thousands of dragon members waited to enter the room scheduled for the main meeting. The space had a capacity of 300 people and there were about four thousand people waiting to get in, including André Villas-Boas, who had announced his attendance after harshly criticizing Pinto da Costa’s management and announcing that he would go to the polls for the 2024 elections. Today he already pointed the finger at the social authorities.
In the presence of thousands of supporters, the AG changed location and moved from the hall in the stadium to the Dragão Arena, where Pinto da Costa spoke and guaranteed that he had reached an agreement with the General Assembly board so that the electoral act would be in April 2024 could take place even if a bylaw amendment were to be approved, before descending into scenes of violence and obvious intimidation.
But that didn’t mean the big meeting was interrupted. And it was only when a member was attacked and forcibly removed from the premises after a speech that the meeting was suspended and postponed until November 20.
Meanwhile, the CNID – Association of Sports Journalists in a statement rejected “the attempts at coercion by some members of FC Porto” towards the journalists present.
Source: DN
