{"id":1677016,"date":"2022-10-06T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677016"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:53:08","slug":"indonesia-police-say-6-facing-criminal-charges-over-soccer-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indonesia-police-say-6-facing-criminal-charges-over-soccer-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia police say 6 facing criminal charges over soccer stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findonesia-police-say-6-facing-criminal-charges-over-soccer-stampede%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>JAKARTA (Reuters) \u2013     Six people including police and match organisers are facing criminal charges in Indonesia over a stampede at a soccer game at the weekend that killed at least 131 people, the country\u2019s police chief said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s stampede in the Malang region of East Java was among the world\u2019s worst sporting disasters, as hundreds of soccer fans tried to flee a stadium riot and the firing of tear gas by police, leading to a crush worsened by several locked exits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo told a news conference that organisers and police were among those being investigated and more people may be charged.<\/p>\n<p>They would be charged with criminal negligence causing death, which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence if found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include three police officers over their use of tear gas, the head of the organising committee and the chief security officer of the home club Arema FC.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the club\u2019s officials had not complied with safety requirements and had allowed a crowd larger than the stadium\u2019s capacity, while stewards had abandoned exits.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said the exits where fleeing people escaped were too narrow to pass through, while the country\u2019s soccer association said some exits were locked.<\/p>\n<p>The government had set up a fact-finding team in an effort to reveal the culprits of the deadly stampede, among the deadliest soccer-related tragedies since a crush in Peru in 1964 killed more than 300.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation comes as President Joko Widodo ordered an audit on the stadia across the country to make sure the country\u2019s security is up to code, adding that \u201clocked doors and steep stairs\u201d were key factors in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>(This story has been refiled to remove extraneous words in paragraphs 2, 7; minor edits in paragraphs 8, 9.)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Martin Petty)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/indonesia-police-say-6\/attachment\/aftermath-of-a-fatal-football-stampede-in-malang-10\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950OS-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950OS-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA (Reuters) \u2013 Six people including police and match organisers are facing criminal charges in Indonesia over a stampede at a soccer game at the weekend that killed at least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/indonesia-police-say-6\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indonesia-police-say-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}