If a staff member at an airport, port or land border checkpoint finds violent fans attempting to enter the Brazilian border, they can take measures to return it.
Xinhua News Agency, Rio de Janeiro, May 13 (reporter Zhao Yan, Chen Weihua) a regulation passed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice in the federal official journal on the 13th, it is stipulated that foreign fans with violent records are prohibited from entering Brazil during the 2019 America Cup football match.
The communique pointed out that the criteria for identifying whether a fan is violent were defined in accordance with the international immigration control system. According to the regulations, if a staff member at an airport, port or land border checkpoint finds violent fans attempting to enter the Brazilian border, he can take measures to return it.
The validity period of this regulation ends on July 7.
Previously, Brazil also implemented similar regulations during large-scale international competitions such as the 2013 Federation Cup and the 2014 World Cup.
The 2019 America’s Cup will be held in five cities in Brazil from June 14 to July 7. The participating teams will come from 10 members of South American Football Association and Japan and Qatar in Asia.