Algeria: “DGSN intent on stemming violence in football stadiums”

The manager in charge of public security at the General Management of the National Police (DGSN), Aissa Naili, has called on all the protagonists entrusted with running sporting activities in Algeria to pool their efforts as part of the struggle against the scourge of endemic violence in the country’s football stadiums.

Mr Aissa Naili pointed out that the DGSN would spare no effort to put an end to the worrying evolution of this plague which is gnawing as he put it at the core of this popular sport.

He emphasized that the managers of these sports institutions and infrastructures should be fully involved in this sustained struggle by ensuring full security for all the football fans inside the various stadiums of the country in order to face up to any untoward contingency and ward off a recurrence of past tragic incidents.

“The taking in charge of the security measures inside these sporting facilities remains up to the parties concerned”, he stressed.

Mr Naili also recalled that the setting up of numerous surveillance cameras inside and outside the football stadiums was a prerequisite for any remedial solution to the violence scourge.

He added that it’d had become obvious that the “zero-risk option” didn’t exist in stadiums while laying emphasis on the imperious need of launching awareness-raising campaigns to this effect.