In a little while, the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and the Deputy Minister of Sports Yannis Vroutsis will announce the measures to deal with fan violence in a joint press conference.

Ahead of the opening of Superleague grounds to fans, which is scheduled for next Monday 13 February, the government will announce a package of measures which will include, among other things, cameras and e-ticketing for identification to prevent offending behavior in the context of sports meetings.

“Frenzy vineyard pitch stops” declared the Deputy Minister of Sports, Yiannis Vroutsis, immediately after the meeting he had yesterday, Tuesday at the Directorate of Thessaloniki, with the Deputy Minister of the Interior, responsible for Macedonia and Thrace, Stathis Konstantinidis, when asked about the opening of the stadiums and the new measures for dealing with sports violence.

“We are coming to deal with what is brewing inside the football stadiums. Where fan behavior is organized, the extreme. From February 13 – and this concerns all sports, a draconian law – framework will be implemented, with very strict sanctions throughout Greece,” said Mr. Vroutsis, adding that “the sanctions will be such that those who break the law will be brought before in very difficult situations”.

Regarding the installation and operation of cameras from March 6, he characteristically stated that “they will see every corner of the pitch even the dressing room”while he focused on the innovation of entering the playing fields from April 9: “whoever enters the field we will know who he is, his address and phone number”.