A group of around 10 Fénix fans attacked the River Plate group in Capurro Park with stones after the match between the two teams this Saturday, reported the Underlined journalist Daniel de León and confirmed to The Observer Ministry of the Interior sources. So far “there are no detainees or complaints by victims,” reported from the Ministry.
“If it weren’t for 2 women identified with Fénix, 2 security guards who didn’t let River’s men out, and 1 policeman, it could have been worse”De Leon said on Twitter.
Once again security failed in a game. 10 people who were behind the arch that leads to the houses in Capurro, beat, stoned and broke cars belonging to River fans. (Follow)
— Daniel DeLeon (@delaion2511) August 20, 2022
The situation arose when River fans They began to withdraw from the Capurro visitor tribunewhich gives a dirt road parallel to Route 5, after the 2-1 victory of the Prado team.
According to several witnesses to the events, The Observer, a group of people who had not entered the stadium and watched the match from an adjoining complex of buildings arrived at the visiting exit and he began to stone River’s partials. Several had to re-enter Capurro to protect themselves.
Furthermore, these people they also damaged several cars parked on the dirt roadas can be seen in a video posted on Twitter by sports journalist Marcelo Ricci, from 970 Universal.
In the video you can also see the presence of a policeman who tried to calm the attackers and moved them away from the visiting grandstand, while they continued to hit cars. A private security guard from the stadium was also present, who He tried to separate some River fans who wanted to confront these people.
Sergio Oliva, a photographer from the sports website De Primera who worked on the match, found his car with a stoned window when leaving the match, and stated that “there were not enough officers to control the situation”. “They were a couple of police officers trying to ‘contain’ these insane people who were around Capurro Park, they destroyed everything they saw regardless of who it was from”Oliva said via Twitter.
I come to work hard, because today it’s hard to make a difference with sports photography. At the end of the game I find myself with this and a bunch of misfits breaking the cars that are around, who is in charge of the security of these meetings? FOLLOW pic.twitter.com/iGtspqzyFm
– Sergio Olivo (@SergioOlivo20) August 20, 2022