This Saturday Penarol and National They met at the Campeón del Siglo stadium no away fanswith a 2-0 victory for the locals. On the field and its surroundings no major situations of violence were recordedbut the Prosecutor investigates “very serious criminal acts” than “a gang of criminals” identified with National He committed the day of the classic.
This was reported by the Flagrancia prosecutor Ferdinand Romanin charge of investigating several of the acts of violence in sport that have occurred in recent years, in an interview with Carve Deportiva radio. “Even though it was played without an audience, very serious things happened”lament.
Two people identified with Nacional They were charged with a crime of “especially aggravated robbery with the use of a firearm” after steal a flag from Peñarol in a family home near the Nacional sports complex, declared Romano. they must pass 90 days in pretrial detention.
This people They were two of the eight arrested in the operation of the classic. there was also two captured for disorderly conduct and another for trying to enter fireworks to the Champion of the Century, reported on Saturday the person in charge of the operation and deputy director of the Republican Guard, Jose Gonzalez.
Besides, two partials from Peñarol were injured the day of the classic: one of them received a gunshot wound -is out of danger- and another was stabbed.
They also reached the orbit of the Prosecutor’s Office several videos of criminal acts that went viral on social networks on the day of the classic. In one of them, two Nacional fans hit a Peñarol fan which was sitting alone at a bus stop.
In another, it looks like several partials of National, one of them with a baseball bat and another with a Gremio shirt (Brazilian team with which Nacional fans maintain a friendship), attack another part of Peñarol in front of a business located on Avenida José Belloni and Camino Galeano, in the neighborhood White stones.
After hitting the man the fans they left in three carsone of which also seen in the video of the stop. Romano confirmed that three cars participated in the two criminal acts, and assured that the man with the bat “He already participated in several other things.”
for roman this “gang of criminals” that he believes was part of both events disseminated on the networks, is made up of “the same ones who burned roofs near the Nacional headquarters” last week to protest Nacional’s decision to play classics without visitorsand they are also those who “threatened to kill” the leader Eduardo Ache.
He even claimed that these people acted with a similar “modus operandi” to that of a group of people from Nacional who “They injured a Peñarol fan who was 15 blocks away” from Domingo Burgueño Miguel de Maldonado, when his team faced Deportivo Maldonado on that field on March 18th. In that case the fans they also went down in three carssaid the prosecutor.
The Flagrancia prosecutor regretted that this Saturday “events happened that did not happen in the previous classic” of Septemberin which several damages occurred in the Great Central Park, since in that game “There were no injuries”and in this case “There is a gang of criminals that goes out to commit very serious criminal acts.”
“He went hunting. Anyone who had a Peñarol shirt was being beaten,” said Romano, who hopes to know “as far as it can be dismantled” to the responsible group. “We have a lot of material. The prosecutors on duty have a lot of material,” valued the prosecutor, who added that the beginning of the investigation was in charge of the 3rd Shift Flagrancia prosecutor, Silvia Pérez.
