SA Coroner; FNB Stadium; Victims from 2001 stampede
Fake tickets cause another deadly stampede at South African soccer match
Fake tickets for a black soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa lead to another deadly stampede at the FNB Stadium on Saturday.
Published: July 31, 2017, 9:07 am
Johannesburg
Two people died and another person was critically injured when when black fans rushed a gate during the Carling Black Label Cup match between the country’s two favourite black teams, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
Stadium Management South Africa announced that a preliminary investigation has revealed that the incident was caused by fraudulent tickets sold to fans who then tried to gain access to the stadium.
Police have already confiscated about 3000 counterfeit tickets that fans had in their possession at the match. The tickets were officially printed by South African online ticket service, Computicket.
“The stock is serial numbered, it should be locked away, it should be signed out against proper registers. Our inference at this stage is that the ticket stock had been stolen,” the CEO of Stadium Management Jacques Grobbelaar told South African media outlet, Eyewitness News.
Grobbelaar says the validation of the tickets point further to more internal corruption, and investigations by the police will be undertaken.
Johannesburg Public Safety MMC Michael Sun confirmed to Eyewitness News that the stampede was caused by the selling or usage of fake tickets at the venue.
The stampede occurred where more than 87 000 black fans arrived at the stadium. Despite the incident, the match continued.
The stampede is similar to the Ellis Park disaster, where 43 fans died in a match between Pirates and Chiefs in April 2001.
The Ellis Park Stadium disaster was the worst sporting accident in South African history where, on 11 April 2001, 43 black spectators were crushed when fans poured into the Stadium in Johannesburg, to see the football match between the same two black teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates.
The final inquiry into the incident established that a major cause was bribed security personnel admitting fans without tickets into the stadium.
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