UEFA president Michel Platini was sitting in the stands, shaking his head, referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco had the match between Basel and Schalke interrupt: The protest by Greenpeace activists could be costly to the host, determines the UEFA.

FC Basel threatened because of the protest by Greenpeace activists in the Champions League match against Schalke 04 on Tuesday evening a severe punishment by the European Football Union (UEFA). The Spanish referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco made ​​because of the five-minute stoppage in play caused the action, a special report to. This will be analyzed in peace, said a Uefa spokesman at St. Jakob Park.

Schalke manager Horst Heldt did after his team’s 1-0 victory not condemn the action, even though it was directed against the S04’s main sponsor Gazprom. What it actually was at the protest, but he may not realize at first: “I just think this is some of the Uefa action against racism or something I’ve never experienced Well, that lasted about ten minutes,.. and then they were gone again. ”

Four Greenpeace activists had rolled out a yellow banner from the roof of the stadium St. Jakob-Park, was protesting against the oil drilling in the Arctic by Schalke and Uefa sponsor Gazprom. Before the game, they had to prepare the action of security forces unmolested. After five minutes they had presented the poster, they climbed back on the roof, and the referee continued the match. The French UEFA president Michel Platini, who sat next to the Swiss coach Ottmar Hitzfeld had pursued the action, shaking his head from the VIP box.

In the Arctic, Greenpeace protests were forcibly stopped against an oil platform, Russian border guards had stormed a Greenpeace ship some days ago. 30 activists is still in Russian prison They should be charged with piracy and fear of imprisonment.

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