Some 16 buses —out of a total of 50 that Peñarol hired Cutcsa to transport their fans to the Clásico— broke downreported to The Observer the president of the company, Juan Salgado. “They all occurred on the way there, in the seven-minute journey between the Mercado Modelo and the Gran Parque Central,” he declared.
The businessman pointed out that the damage reached ceilings, doorbells, a hatch, among others. “From the police point of view, the operation was excellent from the beginning to the end. What is happening, and we have been noticing an exponential increase in violence, is that beyond the work that companies and the police can do, there are actors to I think the time to look to the side is over,” said Salgado.
The president of Cutcsa affirmed that “good people want to go to the stadium, they want to take a young son, a nephew, a godson. “The party interested in the soccer business should not look to the side, and (should) put all the meat on the grill on an issue that, if not later, we will end up regretting worse things,” he added.
Salgado considered that “some measures are missing” that the clubs should take, and he trusted that the leaders should have “good ideas” to achieve it and “allow good people to return to the field to see the pictures of their loves.”
In the prelude to the classic –which ended in a 3-1 victory for Nacional–, Cutcsa had sent both clubs an institutional note warning of the damage in the successive instances of the match. The company’s drivers, for their part, had launched a campaign this weekend asking for the care of the units.
