The UEFA has decided sanction the FC Barcelona for the Nazi banner that their fans exhibited during the match Champions League against Monaco at the Luis II Stadium. The sign read “Flick Heil (Hail Flick).”
On the banner, the letter ‘h’ of the word ‘heil’ is also written in a silkscreen reminiscent of the one used to write the expression ‘Seig Heil’ —’salute to victory’, in Spanish— in propaganda posters of Nazi ideology.
The organization has imposed on the Catalan club a fine of 10,000 euros and a ban on selling tickets to their fans for the next European away match.
According to the German newspaper Spiegel, A UEFA delegate alerted Barça about the banner and the club’s security department immediately confiscated it.
FC Barcelona itself condemned the presence of that banner. “Unworthy. Shameful. Disgust and sadness that someone who says he loves the club acts this way. Everything has a limit. It can never be repeated again. Never again,” Elena Fort, the institutional vice president and spokesperson for the Board of Directors of the Blaugrana entity, wrote on social networks.
