An amateur futsal match in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul it ended in a widespread altercation, which left at least two injured after the referee pointed a gun and assaulted the players.
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Once the match, played last Wednesday at the Cassino Beach and which was broadcast live on social media, a heated discussion ensued between the players of the winning team É Us Guri and the referee, who took out and pointed a gun at the athletes.
With fists and butts
Videos and images that circulate on the networks also show the moment in which the judge, identified as mauroattacks some of the players with punches and blows.
This Saturday, police sources confirmed that the referee is a police officer and that the authorities launched an investigation to verify possible crimes of bodily injury.
Likewise, the amateur team explained on its official pages that the incident began when the judge attacked a player who was expelled through a grid, which led to the questioning of the technical commission and others present on the field.
“Then, the referee took out his pistol that was on his waist throughout the match and attacked two athletes from our team with butts,” denounced the É Us Guri.
The wounded were immediately taken to a hospital in the region, where one of them received three stitches in the wound and the other fainted during the transfer.
“We repudiate the act of the referee”
“We, from the É Us Guri team, repudiate the act of the referee of the match, who should be the person who calms the spirits of all those involved instead of taking that very wrong attitude,” completed the note, which acknowledges that the expelled player “I was offending the judge” but reaffirms that “nothing justifies such an act.”
