Finally, the classic between Peñarol and Nacional will be played, scheduled for January 22 at the Centenario Stadium with an audience in the stands, confirmed the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, to The Observer. Its accuracy was questioned last week, after a 17-year-old teenager wearing a Peñarol shirt was shot in the head in the La Unión neighborhood. At that time, the minister said: if the football matches are to make a war “they will be suspended”.
At the same press conference, he stated that he was very concerned about the crime and that he investigated its potential link to the incidents in the Via Blanca of October 8 a day before, where a fan of Nacional was murdered. “Soccer matches are a party, not a war. If it is to make a war, they will be suspended,” said the minister. He added that the main reason for concern on the part of the ministry is that “there are instances where an adverse climate is threatened and generated.”
The Nacional fan who died in Vía Blanca was one of the 16 convicted of the crime of Hernán Fiorito, the Peñarol fan murdered in Santa Lucía, in 2016, at the club’s anniversary celebrations. On October 8, three people were injured, including Simón, who He was shot in the abdomen and was referred to the CTI Pasteur Hospital, where he later died.
After the murder of the minor from Peñarol, Erwin “Coco” Parentini, a member of the club imprisoned for having been the mastermind of the murder of Nacional fan Lucas Langhain, broadcast an audio in which he threatened a “storm” of crimes. “things are great. A child, an adolescent who goes on a bicycle to run errands, has nothing to do with a soccer fan, a soccer fan, that is not done (…) It is an act of cowardice, if they know every where does each person live, each boss. That is cowardice like what they did in Santa Lucia with (Hernán) Fiorito, yet another cowardice. Always the same with you,” he continued.
“Violence is fought with violence, we are going there in one. They will not know how or when or where, but they will appear everywhere,” Parentini said then.
