The Trade Union Association of Cooperatives and Transport Workers (Ascot) rejected violent chants intoned by the president of Cutcsa and the Chamber of Transport John Salgadobehind the classic between Peñarol and Nacional last Saturday April 1st. The carriers understand that Salgado’s attitude “could lead to retaliation against drivers and guards.”
“transport workers we suffer every weekend from large groups of violent fans who travel on the buses to and from the stadiums, and we believe that this attitude could lead to reprisals against drivers and guards”lamented the union in a statement published this Tuesday.
Salgado will be summoned to testify in the Prosecutor’s Office next Monday after it was broadcast in a video in which he is seen with other Peñarol fans singing a song that refers to the death of a Nacional fan.
“I’m still the same personwith the same family values in which I was raised and have cultivated throughout these more than 30 years of experience, and above all, I maintain the same thought and conviction of condemning all forms of violence”wrote the president of Cutcsa in a public letter.
According to Ascot, “Violence in sports has claimed dozens of fatalities, including a fellow passenger”and attitudes like those of Salgado “They only add to the spiral of violence.”
“Many workers and workers like soccer and other sports, but We will never consider those who sympathize with other colors as enemies, nor will we celebrate deaths. Let’s not allow violence to become naturalized.”reads the Ascot statement, which hopes “the corresponding judicial actions” in the case of the president of Cutcsa.
