Club Brugge fans jailed for impersonating Borat in Kazakhstan

Club Brugge were successful Kazakhstan to look Kairat Almaty successful the league signifier of the UEFA Champions League.

Club Brugge ‌supporters who wore “mankinis” made celebrated by the satirical quality Borat for ‍their team’s Champions ‍League clash against Kairat Almaty connected Tuesday person been jailed successful Kazakhstan for 5 days for showing disrespect, Belgian media reported connected Thursday.

The trio were arrested successful the stands astatine the Astana ⁠Arena successful the swimwear, which was worn by English actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ​in his film: Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit ‍Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, which mocks Kazakhstan and the United States.

Recommended Stories

• list 1 of 4Bangladesh adamant connected playing T20 World Cup successful Sri Lanka contempt ICC threat
• list 2 of 4ICC won’t relocate Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup games from India
• list 3 of 4Palestinians contradict reports Israel halted exile shot transportation demolition
• list 4 of 4‘I didn’t acceptable retired to interruption records’: Pakistan’s archetypal pistillate MMA fighter

More than 500 Club Brugge supporters made the travel of astir 6,000km (3,700 miles) to ticker Tuesday’s necktie ‍with the trio ⁠in the stands, stripping down to the flimsy luminous greenish costumes earlier being taken distant by police.

“Three men committed acts during a shot lucifer that showed disrespect and disturbed nationalist order,” said a connection from the Astana police, reported by Belgian media connected Thursday.

“Police officers arrested 3 overseas fans and took them to a constabulary station.”

The ​police besides said that administrative proceedings had been ‌initiated for nationalist drunkenness and insignificant hooliganism. They were sentenced connected Wednesday to 5 days successful jail.

Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was monitoring the situation. “We are offering our compatriots ‌the indispensable consular support. However, for privateness reasons, we cannot supply immoderate further information,” its connection said.

Baron Cohen’s ‌portrayal of Borat, a fictional writer from ⁠the erstwhile Soviet state, plays into stereotypes held by Westerners astir the Central Asian state portion satirising the United States, wherever Borat tries to instrumentality politicians and others into compromising themselves.

The ‌2006 movie caused choler successful Kazakhstan, wherever authorities discouraged its screening and threatened ineligible enactment implicit what they saw arsenic an insult to its nationalist character. ‍But for a follow-up movie successful 2020, the state adopted Borat’s catchphrase “Very Nice!” to effort to beforehand tourism.