An Argentine journalist recounted what happened to the fans of the “sugar box.”
Colombia News.
Deportivo Cali will face Boca Juniors next Thursday, May 26 at ‘La Bombonera’, the mythical stadium of the ‘xeneixe’ team located in Buenos Aires.
The match is valid for the sixth and last date of Group E of the Copa Libertadores de América, an opportunity for the team led by Venezuelan Rafael Dudamel to advance to the next phase with at least one tie in case Corinthians from Brazil defeat to the Always Already of Bolivia.
See: For another stolen ‘rag’, the Cali bar is in trouble in Argentina with ‘The Imperial Guard’: “They messed with the mafia” is the threat
This is why several fans of the so-called brave bars of the sugar group have already been installed in Argentina for several days, taking advantage of their stopover in Bolivia.
There, a couple of days ago they made headlines when, in an act reproached by fans of Racing Club de Avellaneda, the so-called ‘rags’ were stolen from one of the bars of ‘The academy’, as this important Argentine team is known, where figures of our national football have passed such as Teófilo Gutiérrez, Gerardo Bedoya, Giovanni Moreno, Roger Martínez; among others.
Colombian fans of Deportivo Cali made fun of this act and recorded a video that circulated in portals and sports magazines in the gaucho country. The warning from the Racing fans to these compatriots was that they would look for them to make them return this symbol from their bar.
Well, from the south of the continent, an Argentine journalist has reported that two of the four Colombians who appear in the video were held and tortured by some Racing fans in a hotel in the city of Buenos Aires.
«The Racing bar kidnapped and tortured two of the Colombians. They were going to have them locked up there until the flag appeared. The neighbors heard screaming and crying, they called the police and they had to release them, “said the journalist.
The Racing bar kidnapped and tortured the two Colombians in a seedy hotel on Av. Corrientes. They were going to have them locked up there until the flag appeared. The neighbors heard screaming and crying, called the police and had to release them.
– Pablo Carrozza (@pablocarrozza) May 24, 2022
About the other two Deportivo Cali fans who appeared in the video, the social communicator mentioned this: “The girl had left at dawn and the rest disappeared on Friday 3:40 with the rag,” he said.
The journalist assured that for several days, more than 200 bars had gone out to “Hunt the Colombians who stole the flag.”
About 200 Racing bars went out at dawn through the streets of CABA to hunt down the Colombians who stole the flag. Simultaneously, there was a raid on the house where the video was filmed. The rag was gone. A lot of attention to the flag of Cali in the obelisk.
– Pablo Carrozza (@pablocarrozza) May 24, 2022
So far, the local authorities have not made an official statement on these statements by journalist Pablo Carrozza.
It should be noted that in an audio circulating on social networks, alleged Racing fans had threatened the Cali fans who stole the ‘rag’:
“They messed with the mafia, now they are going to see…”, is heard in the recording.
All bad, pity for the common fans who will attend to see Deportivo Cali in Argentina, warn them all… https://t.co/gSQM7Lzfjv
– Nicholas (@zuruCDOC) May 19, 2022
Cover photo: @colombian.com
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