Rabat – The Court of Sport (TAS) left the regime and the media in Algeria in need after rejecting RS Berkane’s victory after an Algerian team abandoned the games as part of the CAF Confederation Cup finales.
The tournament last year was burdened with drama due to the hostility of Algeria compared to the RS BERKE team and the territorial integrity of Morocco.
In April 2024, the Confederation of African Football RS Berkane announced as a winner after the Algeria team withdrew from the competition because the jerseys of the Moroccan team presented the full map of Morocco, including the Southern Provinces.
The authorities in Algeria also confiscated the RS Berkan jersey after the club in Algeria had ended up for the first stage of their double confrontation against USM Alger.
In the second leg, USM alger traveled After Morocco, pull out of the game for the second time.
CAF punished the USM alger with a loss of 0: 3 for the first and second leg games.
TAS judgment rejected the request from USMA and confirmed the victory of RS BerkaneThe jerseys wore that showed the full map of Morocco.
The judgment of TAS also contained no decisions that the club or the Morocco Football Federation (FRMF) sanction, whereby the comments were only treated CAF.
“It is now up to the CAF body to make an explanation of comments on you because Morocco is not concerned,” said a source of Morocco World News (MWN) familiar with the dossier.
In his judgment, the court said that the CAF regulations determine that all devices, including the jerseys of the players, “should not convey a political content”. It noticed the respect and implementation of the “duty of political neutrality” and described the question of western Sahara as unresolved dispute.
The unusual political process tries to find a solution for those Sahara The dossier was often hindered by the restraint of the regime in Algeria to assume its responsibility in the dispute.
Unresolved because of Algeria
For decades for decades, financed, armed and supported Algeria the Polisario front, the separatist group, which claims independence in Südmarocco.
The Algerian regime has publicly refused to participate in roundtable discussions and not guided and sponsored events that convene all parties to the dispute in order to discuss solutions and potential resolutions in order to end the stagnating Sahara case.
In his report on the Sahara last year, UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres said that the discussions of his Messenger with Algerian foreign officials had been rejected with a firm rejection of the country’s participation in the non-managed political process.
“On February 27, 2024, my personal envoy met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Ahmed Attaf, in Algiers, Algeria. On April 16, he met again with Mr. Attaf on the edge of the Minister of Work in New York in the affairs of the Security Council, ”said the unsg.
In particular, the continued focus of Algeria After “ensuring that the people of the West Echaras have the right to self -determination”, Guterres recalled, quoting the Supreme Algerian diplomat to insist that his country is not a party of the conflict.
Resolution 2756 of 2024 also reminded of the urgent need in the participation of the Algerian regime and emphasized the importance of the earlier Roundtable discussions.
In addition to its reluctance, the Algeria regime also praised Morocco in various international forums, including the European Parliament.
On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita banged the attempts and maneuvers carried out by a group of MPs who illegally tried to enter the city of Laayoune.
For Bourita, the orchestrated attempts are “a distraction maneuver without effects”.
One source said MWN: “What Minister Bourita said about the four European parliamentarians yesterday who support the Polisario separatists … applies perfectly to the trial attempts currently being led by Algeria, this as football.”
CAS has no say on political questions
The TAS has warned several circulars across Algeria’s well -established hostility to Morocco that it should not be instrumentalized into the solution of geopolitical and diplomatic conflicts.
Although CAS has the full check -up, his judgment takes into account potential crimes instead of focusing on political or geopolitical questions.
In one of his decisions “,”CAS 2018/A/5800,“The court said that it was” on the whole that the measure of a sanction, which is only be checked by a disciplined area in the exercise of its discretion, which is permitted by the relevant rules, if such a sanction is obviously and grossly disproportionately towards the crime. “
This reflects the politics of the court that his decisions should be made more about sports crimes than in politics or geopolitical questions.
Morocco was also firmly over his position and emphasized how important it is to respect his sovereignty about its southern provinces and territorial integrity.
It remains to be seen whether CAF, an independent position, will react to the comments from CAS, since Morocco does not affect the court’s decision.
