The CNID – Association of Sports Journalists announced this Tuesday that there were attempts to coerce journalists by fans just before the extraordinary General Assembly (AG) of FC Porto, which was suspended on Monday. The leader of the association considers that what happened “was serious” and highlights that “it is fundamental, in democracy, that journalists can work freely.”
“There were several journalists who they tried to coerce, expelling them, verbally attacking them, hitting their cars and that was the situation that we denounced, as we have done with all the anomalous situations that prevent the free work of journalists,” said the president of the association. , Manuel Queiroz.
The CNID leader recognizes that “sport is a field of emotions and everything that has to do with emotions is always complicated,” but he emphasizes, on the other hand, that the protection of the free exercise of journalism “is essential in democracy.” .
Denouncing the “cowardly attitudes and incitement to violence” of a “small noisy minority”, the CNID asked for “special attention” to the police forces and asked FC Porto, within its investigations into the lack of respect that occurred during the AG, include a “small investigation” in order to “help hold people accountable who have no interest in the sport.”
“Everything that involves investigating and investigating the causes and consequences of certain acts is positive. I don’t know if the investigation reaches what happened outside and what happened outside was also serious in some circumstances and was poorly managed by FC Porto. , that I should have thought better about the organization of the GA,” explains Manuel Queiroz, adding that “what happened inside is another area.”
“What happened inside is the responsibility of the club, of the members, and I have no idea what the Public Ministry can do,” he says.
The president of the Board of Directors of the General Assembly (MAG), José Lourenço Pinto, suspended work on Monday, after a hectic main session with confrontation between members, which focused on the deliberation of the new club statutes, but, given the strong participation, Changed location at the last minute.
The extraordinary GA was scheduled for 9 p.m., in an auditorium at the Estádio do Dragão, with capacity for almost 400 people, a figure much smaller than the thousands of members who gathered nearby, and the MAG moved the work to the Dragão Arena pavilion , which has more than 2,000 spectators on match days.
The main meeting resumed after 10:30 p.m., but several people left the place shortly after, after altercations in the stands, as demonstrated by the videos published on social networks and the stories of the members who managed to enter.
The work was suspended and rescheduled for November 20, at 9 p.m., at the Dragão Arena, and FC Porto assured today that it will use “the means at its disposal” to identify those responsible for the “physical attacks” and open a disciplinary procedure.
The hypothetical adoption of electronic and postal voting, a minimum seniority of 15 years, instead of the current 10, to run for president or access to the right to vote after two uninterrupted years as a member are some of the changes being debated.
Prepared by the Superior Council, FC Porto’s advisory body, the document protects the maintenance of the majority of SAD’s share capital against a possible entry of new investors, also expanding the opening to do business between the heads of the governing bodies and the ‘ dragons’, as long as they safeguard the “clear interest of the club.”
Any modification of the statutes will require a two-thirds vote in favor for approval, coming into force the day after the publication of the public deed, which must be carried out within the following 30 days in the Commercial Registry.
Source: TSF
