The President of Villa Española, Miguel Romero, and the secretary of the club, Omar Cazarrédeclared this Friday before the Unit Against Violence in Sportwhich reports to the Montevideo Police Headquarters, learned The Observer. It was after a summons from the prosecutor Fernando Romano, who acts ex officio for the threats to players and leaders.
The club’s players and the coaching staff are scheduled for next week. The citation is made before the Ministry of the Interior for the judicial fair that began this Friday and will end on July 15. The presence of those summoned before the police is not mandatory, unlike summonses in the prosecutor’s office, that Romano can ask later if he thinks it’s necessary.
Sources on the case told The Observer that Romero and Cazarré did concise statements, without giving new elements for investigation, beyond what is expressed in the statement that Villa Española released this Thursday. In the letter, the club affirmed that “the climate of violence” that the prosecution is now investigating “is not new.” On the contrary, “it is systematic, including death threats and physical attacks that increased last Sunday in Palermo Park and in the following days, by people linked (…) and outside the club.”
In that writing it was where it was reported that the soccer player Santiago López decided to leave the club after threats.
From the club they agreed to collaborate with the investigation; the same message that was transmitted when the Ministry of Education and Culture decided to intervene, on June 21 last. The portfolio ruled in favor of a complaint by a group of partners against the current management for alleged violations of the statutes.
Prosecutor Romano, who previously conducted investigations for violence in sports, will begin to act on July 19. Although the fair begins this Friday the 1st and ends on the 15th, between the weekend and the holiday of the 18th, the prosecutors will return to work that day.
