Due to the fight between Nacional and Junior fans, ‘Pecosa’ Castro’s proposal to eradicate violence in the FPC was renewed.

Colombian football has once again become the protagonist around the world due to recent events in stadiums, such as the attempted invasion of Deportiva Cali fans against Once Caldas and the excesses of Atlético Nacional and Junior fans in the tenth date of the BetPlay League, which left more than 30 injured.

The office of the mayor of Medellín and the main division of Colombian football (Dimayor) announced severe sanctions against the purslane team and the sports scene. As part of the guarantee measures, the public will not be allowed to enter for two days, the north stand will be closed for four dates and border closures will be imposed for the visiting public.

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Federico Gutiérrez, the mayor of Medellín, in turn spoke about the fans’ objections to the lack of screening at the entrance and the low presence of uniformed personnel at the entrances to the stadium. In this sense, he said that the local authorities have decided that 600 soldiers will be available in the coming events, whose work is dedicated exclusively to escorting and preventing the entry of weapons.

The incidents of violence that were recorded last Thursday, September 26, 2024 at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium will have immediate consequences. In fact, Fernando ‘Pecos’ Castro’s proposal was considered over a decade ago when he was in charge of Independiente Santa Fe between January and June 2008.

During his time with the Cardinals, the strategist suggested that the best way to avoid acts of vandalism that tarnish Colombian professional football (FPC) and change public order in the city and the region is to send those responsible to prison.

“The state and government must have rules. A fan to go there (to the stadium to commit violent acts), to 10 years in prison,” he said at a press conference. Incidentally, he argued that if those involved are minors, they can plant and cultivate on land available to the national government. And that “they set up carpentry, locksmith, turning and welding workshops and that the public comes to see them,” he added.

Colombia has a pending task of eradicating violence from the stands of its stadiums. To eliminate this behavior, the technical director of the scarlet team proposed ten-year sentences some time ago. Andrés Arteaga, master of procedural law from the Universidad del Rosario, Argentina, specialist in procedural law and professor at the University of Medellín, in an interview with Colombiantalked about the viability of this proposal.

According to the procedural side, the solution goes beyond stiffening the penalties, because under Act 599 of 2000 there are several crimes with very high penalties, but this has not eradicated the underlying problem, moreover, criminal law is governed by the “principle of proportionality to the harm caused”.

Incidentally, the professor said that “it will never be a solution to lengthen sentences or make them tougher in response to repressive populism, We believe we have other means and fairly high penalties that can begin to be applied, including issues of police law.”

However, he emphasized that the crimes of carrying weapons can be considered under the mass scenario, which carries a prison sentence of two years or more, attempted murder or willful bodily harm, which carries penalties exceeding 15 years in prison.

Considering the above, the proposal of “Pháty” Castro is not viable for the lawyer. “10 years to a person for causing a disturbance or for causing a brawl in a stadium because it is clearly disproportionate because we have to see the result of what is caused by the brawl or the result of what is specifically caused by these acts of violence,” he explained.