The EU rejects the resumption of Barcelona

Confirmed FC Barcelona, ​​leaders present the Spanish football league, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has rejected the appeal made by the club against the sentence imposed on him after fans raised the flags of the independence of Catalonia and chanted slogans to the same thing, and that during the Champions League match against Bayer Leverkusen German, which was held on September 29 / September last at the Camp Nou Stadium stronghold of the Catalans.

The club's official website on the Internet and emphasized that the process of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and that after it was fined financially, then a fine of 40 thousand euros.

The FC Barcelona has announced in advance that in case of rejection of the appeal made by the order to raise the death penalty, it will escalate it to the judicial point of the top sports, and if necessary, it will resort to civil courts.

He was starting to spark controversy that case after the European Union imposed a fine on the Barcelona club after fans raised the flags of the independence of Catalonia during the Champions League final match of last season against Juventus in the month of June last German capital Berlin.

This penalty was imposed by the disciplinary committee and the values ​​of the Continental Union after one of the actresses Union, Ukrainian I Bordeogeoffa, to report to ensure these events although no presence in the stadium during the match and was pursued across television screens.

It was based on the punishment, which amounted to about 30 thousand euros, to the fifth paragraph of Article 16.2 of the Disciplinary Code's (UEFA), which provides for the prevention of the use of any tools or raise flags with political or ideological or religious slogans during sporting events.

And complied with the Catalan club to the death penalty absolved this is that he would try to explain the reasons why the Catalan masses to carry flags during matches of UEFA officials.

However, the club expressed his rejection of the death in a statement issued afterwards, recalling that the representative of UEFA, who attended the match, "description Barca fans behavior before, during and after the meeting Balraia."

In spite of the diplomatic move for the club, after the first match in the group stage for the current season in front of Roma, the fans returned during the second game against Bayer Leverkusen at the "Camp Nou" launch whistles through repeating the official anthem of the tournament and a large number of them to raise the flags of independence again.

One of the voices that have expressed dissatisfaction for the second penalty, is vice president of sports affairs, Jordi Mestre, where he was surprised about it, and said: "We believe that the communication we had with officials in the (UEFA) will bear fruit, but it turns out that is not the case." .

And it continued in the same connection: "we will resort to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and if you do not give a rational decision, the Court of Switzerland will resort to even get to the Strasbourg court."

On the other hand, members of the General Assembly to raise the club's lawsuit against UEFA grounds that "the fundamental rights violation."