It’s been a little over two months Rafael Damian Techera Torres He stopped being on the soccer blacklist in Uruguay. He is one of the leaders of the barrabrava of Peñarol who demanded benefits from the club, in exchange for safety during games. But a rough relationship between the bar and the gold-black leaders meant that on November 27, 2016, the classic between Peñarol and Nacional was suspended due to disturbances, and that it was later remembered by all as the bottle classic.
A month after that episode at the Centenario Stadium, Techera – alias “El Damián” – was prosecuted along with four other people for having organized to commit crimes and extort money from leaders, soccer players and officials. Although he was not in the stands that day, Justice proved that he was part of the group that challenged Peñarol to obtain money and tickets to the matches, among other benefits.
The objective was to attack the Peñarol Security Commission, chaired then for a few weeks by Jorge Ruibal, former minister of the Supreme Court of Justice. Upon assuming his position, Ruibal ordered for that classic to cut off the delivery of tickets to members of the barrabrava, which provoked the fury of its members, especially its leaders..
That group included key men of the golden bar What Sergio Paolo López, aka “El Negro Paolo”Y Erwin Parentini Flores, aka “Coco”who went to prison in 2019 for the murder of the Nacional fan lucas langhain. Some of the leaders operated from jail and from behind bars gave orders to those outside. Today most have already served their sentences and there are a few in prison.
File photo. Riots in the grandstand
roof has four background; among them one for firing a firearm, internal arms trafficking and homicide as a co-author. He was involved in the death of two Aguada fans on the night of May 8, 2009. Rodrigo Nunez and Rodrigo Barrios they were assassinated by Peñarol fans. On June 24, 2009, with 21 years Techera was convicted of co-authoring these events. Two other people had also been prosecuted for their participation in the crime.
After serving his last sentence and leaving prison, Techera was arrested this Thursday in the Jardines del Hipódromo neighborhood (Montevideo) while carrying a kilo of cocaine..
He was with two other people in a vehicle: his sister and another man, who was driving. The police arrested them on Rafael and Milan streets. He was in the back, and he had with him a brick of drugs between the legshe knew The Observer with case sources.
From this Thursday he was once again in the hands of the police and the Justice. His sister also has a drug record from 2018. Meanwhile, he was imputed and the prosecution gathers at this time elements for a possible oral trial.
Justice investigates Techera for distributing drugs in the neighborhoods. He is known among the barrabravas and among the Montevideo neighborhoods he frequents. Sources said investigators They found a point that connects him with a man arrested this Friday – a day later – in Canelones, and whose investigation points to sale of drugs to defendants in Operation Ocean, as reported by The Observer.
blacklisted
Techera was one of the names that inaugurated, on February 1, 2017, the black list that the Uruguayan Football Association created with information from the Ministry of the Interior.
A year later, there were more than 400 people on that list; in August 2019, there were 631. At that time, the duration of the sanction was not regulated nor was there a mechanism to get out of it. The decree establishes that the inclusion in the blacklists will be up to 15 years for those cases in which a “very serious” infraction is proven, or for the period determined by the Justice in the event of a criminal sanction.
Although they were not the majority, there were entries to the list in the pandemic. Between August 2019 and September 2021, added 104 people.
Today there are 1,000 disabled people, sources informed The Observer.
Along with the blacklist and the installation of facial recognition cameras in the Centenario Stadium, one of the filters created by the Ministry of the Interior to keep violent fans out of matches was the obligation to buy tickets with an identity card. It is both a mechanism to control the public of each game, and who entered the stands.
Today Techera can enter the courts, and “surely yes” he has done so in these “two or three months” that he has been off the payroll, a source told The Observer. If it is listed again, it will do so with a aggravating. Sanctions range from six months to 15 years.
