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While Fenerbahce readies for Olimpija, Sato awaits prosecution [UPDATED]

Here’s one way to slow down the fearsome-looking Fenerbahce Ülker: detain a key starter. It seems as though Romain Sato won’t be suiting up for his side’s Euroleague game against Union Olimpija after being detained at Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport yesterday afternoon for an alleged violation it’s a bit difficult to believe…

Reported the Slovenia-based Kosarka, “Kranjska Police confirmed yesterday that they arrested a foreign national who did not have the relevant documents. ‘On October 18, 2012 at around 14:30, border control officers at Pučnik Airport found that the 31-year-old man, a citizen of the Central African Republic, had arrived with a false passport. Police officers have detained the man and today the case will be referred to the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kranj.”

And that sound you just heard was hundreds of Euroleague fantasy basketball managers shrieking in anguish…

Update: Fenerbahce officials are firing back at Slovenian authorities’ handling of the matter. Explains Euro-Step, the Turkish club’s official website unleashed a barrage of criticism vis-a-vis the holding of Sato in Ljubljana, calling Sato’s detainment an “international scandal at the bureaucratic level, not merely simple friction between two Euroleague clubs.”

Translated the ‘Step further: “The approach of Slovenian officials against a person who has a Schengen visa and has visited bunch of other European countries as well as the United States with the same passport cannot be understood.”

Oct 19, 2012ballineurope
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Comments: 4
  1. Jeremy Myers
    8 years ago

    This is nothing other than Slovenian officials looking after their club. It is a scandal and shows Slovenia has no place being in European leagues.

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  2. Jaka B.
    8 years ago

    Jeremy, Sato’s passport has different serial numbers than document he provided for his schengen visa. His passport has page manually added and is same not originally issued.

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  3. Phileus
    8 years ago

    Lol, and Fenerbahce still won. Let’s all hope this really is a case of a faulty passport and not Olimpija shenanigans, or else it would be very pathetic 😛

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  4. BED
    8 years ago

    If Sato really did this, then there is something really odd here. Why would he need to do that? This is one of the weirdest basketball stories ever.

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