The Government prepared a diploma, called the Legal Regime for Explosives and Dangerous Substances, which includes the criminalization of the use and deflagration of pyrotechnic devices in sports venues, a source from the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) told Lusa on Monday. .
This diploma includes a chapter on criminal liability and administrative offences, as well as a section on criminal liability and common danger crimes.
The new framework proposes a prison sentence of up to five years, or a fine of up to 600 days, for those who “transport, possess, use, distribute or have in their possession explosives, articles or artifacts” defined in the same diploma, do so in ” sporting venues or when traveling to or from them when a sporting event is taking place”.
The statute establishes as prohibited articles improvised explosive devices or “pyrotechnic articles”, which includes any device containing explosive substances or “an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce a heating, lighting, sound, gas or smoke effect, or a combination of these.” effects”, which includes the popular ‘very lights’.
On Saturday, in the match between Sporting and Casa Pia (3-1), from matchday 10 of the I Football League, the cheering squads against Sporting launched fireworks behind Adán’s goal, in the first minutes of the match.
The behavior of these supporters led to an intense police charge in that sector, in which chairs were seen flying and some supporters were arrested.
The PSP confirmed on Sunday that “during the game, around 8:46 p.m., a group of SCP supporters prepared and fired, in the upper south area of the Stadium, the launch of numerous rockets, which are prohibited from being used in the Stadium, putting the physical integrity of the spectators and sports agents at risk and they displayed large banners, one of them with content offensive to the police forces”.
“In order to preserve the physical integrity of all the spectators, at risk with the launch of the rockets, police teams were summoned to the benches, with the aim of curbing such behavior as well as removing the labels and intercepting the offenders” , adds the note from that police force.
The PSP continues by indicating that, when “normality was restored, when the policemen left the bench, the SCP supporters threw chairs in their direction, and there was an intervention to restore public order, using the force necessary for the specific situation.”
“Four SCP sympathizers involved in these events were intercepted from the PSP action, and the labels and material used to launch rockets were seized,” the statement added.
Before the game, the PSP had carried out an inspection operation at the headquarters of the Juventude Leonina, next to the José Alvalade Stadium, “with the collaboration of ASAE and the Lisbon Municipal Police” and during which “there have been reports of several infractions by the different entities eight notices of infraction, with apprehension of diverse matter”.
The matter is on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, João Paulo Correia, announced, on Thursday, this recriminalization of pyrotechnics in sports venues.
The situation became more visible after the police charge against the “leonine” fans, which could have been started by the deflagration of pyrotechnic objects.
Already today, Sporting repudiated, in a statement, the violence that took place in the José Alvalade Stadium, disassociating itself from the cheerleader of the Juventude Leonina, reiterating its position “in favor of a healthy sporting spectacle, experienced as a family and in support of his club, and will maintain his intransigence in the fight against crime and violence in sport”.
Source: TSF
