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Please find attached a press release published in today’s papers.
PRESS RELEASE
The Referees’ Commission of the Luxembourg Basketball Federation (FLBB), as well as the committee of the Luxembourg Basketball Referees’ Association (AdABL), are shocked and outraged by the verbal and physical assault perpetrated on March 9 against a 17-year-old fellow referee, following a U14 girls’ match by a parent-spectator of a team from this encounter.
The physical integrity of a referee must never be questioned, and no criticism that one may wish to express towards a referee justifies touching them in any way whatsoever.
We insist that the other assaults and verbal excesses during and after this match by the parents and other spectators towards our young colleague – who is also a minor – are just as intolerable.
We have noticed for some time now an intolerable increase in verbal aggression from spectators towards our young referees during youth category matches.
Our role being to represent and protect our colleagues in general, and our young colleagues in particular, the Referees’ Commission of the FLBB and the committee of the AdABL have, by mutual agreement, decided to start the quarter-final matches in LBBL-Men on March 23 and 24, 2024, as well as the LBBL-Women’s matches on March 30 and 31, 2024, with a few minutes’ delay in order to communicate to the spectators a common position of the FLBB, the Referees’ Commission, and the AdABL, reminding of fair play and respect towards referees in general and young referees in particular.
The Referees’ Commission of the FLBB and the committee of the AdABL.
