CFK urges football clubs to 'turn in' lists detailing hooligans' identities

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged football clubs affiliated to the AFA to “turn in to the authorities” their lists detailing the names of the hooligans attending matches on a regular basis in order to increase security outside the stadiums.

“Clubs must turn in the lists,” she said while being asked for the recent episodes involving hooligan violence this weekend.

“There are mafias everywhere and we need to fight them all,” she said, adding she was sent “a New York Time article detailing that mobsters are engaged in money laundering activities in the world’s largest banks.”

The Head of State made these statements while leaving a ceremony she attended in the Tecnópolis science and technology theme park in Villa Martelli.

The President, however, asked not to brand all football fans as violent, after indicating that “whenever something happens in the football world we go crazy.”