Email FIFA to demand punitive actions against Algeria

I called FIFA this morning and they gave this address to email:
[email protected]
They wouldn't give me Blatter's email and phone number, for some reason. :)

Below is the letter I emailed them. Feel free to use it if you wish. You can also use this online form, or mail or fax them:

FIFA
Attn. Mr. Joseph S. Blatter, President
FIFA-Strasse 20,
P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel : +41-(0)43 222 7777,
Fax : +41-(0)43 222 7878.




To Mr. Joseph S. Blatter, President, FIFA.

The behaviour of Algeria's fans, encouraged and sponsored by their governnent cannot, and must not, be tolerated.

While Egypt was preparing for its final World Cup qualifying game in the Sudan on Wednesday, Algeria's fans has other plans altogether. An anti-Egyptian massacre. A pogrom, no less.

Algeria's fans have attacked Egyptians in Sudan with knives and swords they purchased days earlier - establishing beyond the shadow of a doubt the premeditated aspect of the attacks, an aspect further confirmed if put in the context of the Algerian victory in that game. A massacre was in the plans, irrespective of the game's result.

The blood of dozens of Egyptians children, women and men in Sudan has been shed at the hands of Algerian gangs which flew to Khartoum, subsidised by the Algerian government, for the sole purpose of affecting maximum damage on the property, safety and lives of Egyptians, chasing them down the streets of Sudan. Severe injuries are reported and many have been hospitalised, with injuries going from superficial wounds to life-threatening injuries. To this very moment, Egyptians are taking refuge in the houses and stores of the Sudanese population, terrified of the mobs surrounded them, and unable to reach the airport.

Furthermore, the government and private sponsorship of the attacks, which allowed for airplane ticket prices to be slashed from 90,000 Algerian dinars to as low as 5,000 dinars establishes the responsibility and collusion of the Algerian State in those massacres.

In parallel, the Egyptian diaspora in Algeria has been forced to take refuge in their homes since Thursday November 12th. Their houses have been attacked, their offices ransacked. The Algiers office of EgyptAir was set ablaze. Egyptian companies are pulling out their staff from Algeria's provinces. Baghdad, it would seem, is safer for Egyptians than Algiers.

Anything short of the most severe punitive actions will be a grave affront to FIFA and the values of sportsmanship it upholds and defends, and a surrender to the logic of thuggery and terrorism that Algeria has displayed for the past week.

I strongly urge you to cancel the result of Wednesday the 18th, to suspend Algeria's participation in the 2010 World Cup and future competitions until proper compensation, settlement and apology is agreed upon.

Sincerely,
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