{"id":47545,"date":"2023-02-16T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/football-fans-urged-to-refrain-from-violent-behaviors\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:28:22","slug":"football-fans-urged-to-refrain-from-violent-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/football-fans-urged-to-refrain-from-violent-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"Football fans urged to refrain from violent behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The caution follows separate post-match incidents in which some fans have turned violent and assaulted their opponents, and causing public disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, February 12, shortly after a football match between Rayon Sports and APR at Huye stadium, a group of violent youth pelted stones at a Kigali-bound bus carrying APR fans, injuring six of them. Subsequently, six people were arrested in connection with the act.<\/p>\n<p>In last December, a similar incident occurred in Rubavu District where two APR fans were assaulted and seriously injured. This was after a football match between Etincelles and APR.<\/p>\n<p>Also in December last year, a journalist was assaulted after a match between Etincelles and Rayon Sport at Umuganda stadium.<\/p>\n<p>On January 20, after a match between Kiyovu Sport and Gasogi United at Bugesera stadium, a section of fans turned rude and abused the match referee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Football or sports competitions should be contested in friendly and orderly manner&#8230; it is a fair play; any acts of violence and assault is criminal and punishable by law,&#8221; Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, the RNP spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that rights of all supporters should be respected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any acts of violence or abuse means that legal actions will be taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In article 121 of the law N\u00ba68\/2018 of 30\/08\/2018 determining offences and penalties in general; any person who, wilfully, injures, beats or commits any serious violence against another person, commits an offence.<\/p>\n<p>Upon conviction, he\/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than three years and not more than five years and a fine of not less than Rwf500,000 and not more than Rwf1 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46211 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cp_kabera-2.jpg\" alt=\"John Bosco Kabera, the RNP spokesperson has said that sports competitions should be contested in a friendly and orderly manner. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda National Police (RNP) has urged football fanatics to refrain from violent and hooliganism behaviors.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47545"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47545"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}