Lausanne (AFP)

Bulgaria has been sentenced to an in camera and a second suspended, following the racist incidents that occurred on 14 October in the match against England, the Euro-2020 qualifier, which triggered the indignation in the UK, UEFA announced on Tuesday.

The UEFA Disciplinary Committee has also fined the Bulgarian federation a fine of € 75,000 for racism and a € 10,000 fine for disruption by its supporters during the anthems.

Bulgaria, the last of group A, will therefore receive the Czech Republic in an empty stadium on 17 November, for the last meeting of its qualification campaign for Euro-2020.

She will be in the second game behind closed doors for a two-year probationary period, UEFA said.

The European institution also imposed a fine of 5,000 euros on the English Federation for the disruption by its supporters during the hymns.

A procedure was opened the day after the match, on October 15, for "racist behavior", because of the "Nazi songs and salutes" addressed by a part of the Bulgarian public during the match won 6-0 in Sofia by England .

A group of the public present in the Vassil Levski stadium in Sofia verbally attacked the black players of the English team. Twice, the match had to be interrupted.

The President of the Bulgarian Federation had announced his resignation while London had demanded UEFA's "stiff punishments".

On the same day, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia assured that the body was "determined to do everything possible to eliminate" the racism of football, pointing out that its sanctions were "among the most severe".

For a federation, the "minimum" sanction in the event of a racist act is a partial or total private session of the stadium.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino had pleaded for a worldwide stadium ban for spectators guilty of racist acts.

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