1-Weapons
FIFA: In the stadium, it is not allowed to possess any weapons and/or any other dangerous objects, including racist or aggressive banners and lasers.
What happened during the game was in stark contrast. According to several eyewitnesses including Ahli captain Hossam Ghaly, many home fans wielded bladed weapons and projectiles which they used to assault the opponent’s supporters following the final whistle.
It was also mentioned that an offensive banner against Port-Said, allegedly lifted from the Ahli stands, infuriated the Ultras Masrawy contingent at the other end of the stadium.
2-Flexible gates
FIFA: All access gates must be able to be opened or closed quickly without causing any danger. The gates shall be designed to withstand pressure from large crowds of people. When open, the gates must be firmly secured. The gates must also be equipped with fireproof locks.
A shock fact emerged after the disaster showing the exit gates of the visiting fans welded. It was a major frailty that fortified the suggestion of a premeditated conspiracy.
This particular deficiency resulted in a stampede that caused the death of tens of Ahli fans.
3-Emergency gates
FIFA: The gates may be opened by remote control or by hand. If a gate can only be opened by hand, it must be opened from the spectators’ side.
Apart from the factor that the Port-Said Stadium gates are not that highly equipped to be opened by a remote control, it was proven that the gates - which eventually collapsed by the crush of the panicking crowds - were closed from outside (against FIFA's regulation).
4-Checkpoints
FIFA: All entry points must be equipped with facilities for searching persons and examining objects, and for storing objects securely.
Absence of check-points proved to be a fiasco; fans possessing weapons and canisters were easily allowed to enter with no search being conducted on them.
According to the Fact-Finding Committee spokesman, match referee Fahim Omar said it was the first time for him to enter a stadium without being subjected to normal searching procedures.
5-Players and officials protection
FIFA: On entering and leaving the field of play, as well as during the match, players and officials must be protected against intrusions from spectators.
TV footage showed the disturbing scene of hundreds of vociferous home fans storming the pitch to attack Ahli players and staff before easily breaking into the visiting stands, with the Central Security Forces nothing but mere bystanders.
Ahli boss Jose said he was fortunate to stay alive
6-Identification
FIFA: The spectator areas shall be divided into sectors and identifiable as such. Sectors shall be marked in such a way as to allow spectators, and particularly security forces, to identify them quickly.
Video cameras with a zoom facility shall be installed inside and outside the stadium and close to the entry points. The video cameras shall be controlled from the police control room and connected to the police monitors. A freeze frame facility shall also be available to identify individuals.
The officials in charge of the game seemed utterly ignorant of that measure; as neither cameras were used for identification of entrees nor the spectator areas were divided to be used for the aforementioned purpose.
This was vindicated by several eyewitnesses from the Masri stands, insisting there were many individuals who didn’t look like football fans between them (i.e. thugs).
7- Match organizers (The FA)
FIFA: The match organizers must guarantee in cooperation with the local police authorities the safety of the participating teams and their officials – as well as the FIFA match officials – during their whole stay, from arrival to departure.
The scene of fans jumping Ahli’s coaching staff and another showing referees fleeing just after the game suggests that no co-ordination has been brought about between match officials and local police authorities, who were evidently passive throughout the melee.
8-Medical service
FIFA: The medical service shall be permanently provided with suitable rooms for the first aid treatment of spectators and any other person, other than the doping test room or the players’ medical attention room.
“We didn’t see one ambulance car since the match was over,” Ahli star Mohamed Barakat screamed in a phone call following the ill-fated clash.
The visitors witnessed numerous deaths inside their own dressing room, with team doctor Ihab Ali forced to hospitalize the gravely injured fans due to absence of ambulance vehicles.
Fathi, an Ultras Ahlawy teenager who witnessed the whole calamity, said that he only saw a single ambulance van which was not enough to save the lives of massacred fans.
9-Permitted entries
FIFA: On match days, only persons in possession of valid permits shall be granted entry to the stadium. Valid permits include:
• Match tickets;
• Workers’ identity cards;
• Passes.
Among the numerous frailties leading to the catastrophe, valid tickets proved to be the least concern.
It became obvious that thugs without valid permits were allowed to enter the stadium, which came as a normal outcome to the absence of check-points and security supervision.
10-Stewards
In the longest of FIFA’s 33-article document for safety regulations, the following is a brief for the primary duties of stewards
• Guaranteeing Safety and order
• Conducting security checks
• Protecting key areas
• Removing, storing and possibly returning any prohibited objects
• Protecting the players and match officials
• Denying access to, or removing any persons who cannot prove their right to be in the stadium
• Having prior experience
• Supervising and searching guests
• Ensuring that all entry, exit points and emergency exit routes remain unobstructed
• Staffing the entry, exit points and emergency exit points
• Informing the police of any security threat
• Preventing fans from moving into a stadium sector for which they do not possess a valid ticket
At Port-Said Stadium, there were no stewards.
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