After the authorities deployed tear gas to stop a league match between Gimnasia La Plata and Boca Juniors, Argentine football is experiencing an awful mishap in the newest episode of the mass unrest.
After the police fired rubber bullets, a victim suffered a heart attack and a photojournalist was shot by a policeman. The match has not been rescheduled, and no one has been charged, but officials in Argentina said an investigation into what transpired will start soon.
The official responses to the meeting’s events that stood out the most, as recorded by the Spanish newspaper “AS,” are tracked in the lines that follow.
Roberto Berni (Security Minister of Buenos Aires)
More tickets were sold than were permitted, the minister of security observed. The death might not have happened. We want to put things back in order and find out who is to blame.
“”We will do an investigation to find out what happened,” the Argentine minister continued. “At first glance, the first issue was the over selling of tickets; the clubs should take care of the overselling; the duty lies with everyone who organised the event.
Pellegrino, Gabriel (President of Gymnasia Club)
The club’s leader remarked, “A form for selling tickets is currently being used. Club representatives don’t stand at the door to announce to the crowd who is entering and who is not.
The security agency is in charge of this.”
Added he, “He spoke to the AFA, and they want to postpone the game, not now. However, we can’t know whether people were able to enter without a ticket, and I’m not sure if it can be managed for security concerns.
Hispanic Mastrangelo (Referee)
“I take responsibility for what happened in the match,” the match official said. “I met with the leaders to see if they had relatives in the stands, and they were all affected. The truth is that we never had the physical safety to return; the air became unbreathable, and the situation got out of control.
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“The decision is what I understood,” he said, “there were no assurances to play the match, we left the stadium very fast, and the supporters’ respiratory systems and eyes were significantly impacted.”
The speaker emphasised that “there is still information regarding what also happened inside the stadium; as soon as the gas spread in the stadium, the fans tried to flee the area, but there was no route, and they had no way to evacuate safely.
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