Four Los Andes bars arrested over school door shooting

four club bars The Andeswho belong to two different factions, were arrested and charged with face shots on the 6th of this month in front of a school in Lomas de Zamora. The event occurred when the boys were about to leave school, to the desperation of their parents.

The arrests were made later 11 raids in different neighborhoods of the cities of Parque Barón and Ingeniero Budge, of that party in the south of the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

Judicial sources have confirmed to the Télam agency that the arrested are four men accused of being members of two factions of the barrabrava of Club Atlético Los Andes.

According to sources, two of those arrested answer to the faction identified as “The Colonels”while the rest constitute the namesake “The New Bar”.

In the proceedings, which was attended by 150 police officers and four Departmental Support Group (GAD) teams, three firearms, drums and flags were seized.

Prosecutor Jorge Grieco, head of Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 8 of Lomas de Zamora, will investigate the defendants in the next few hours for the crimes of “qualified robbery with the use of weapons and in a populated place and gang, abuse of ‘weapon and damage’.

The shooting

The dramatic episode took place near the Eduardo Gallardón stadium of the Lomas de Zamora institute which plays in Primera B, the third division of Argentine football. Two factions exchanged gunfire as boys were leaving school, in Santa Fe and Portela.

The official part of the Buenos Aires police specified that Diego Callen, 41, denounced that three subjects “members of the faction that answers to Walter Coronel – Area engineer Budge-” beat them while he was in his vehicle.

Callen was part of a group of fans inside the club when the three men arrived to ambush them on two motorcycles and a car. At that moment the confrontation began, which coincided with the students leaving the Ejército de Los Andes school, which has an initial, primary and secondary level. Miraculously there were no students injured.

“We were all in the middle, with the kids and the cars. It was crazy,” described a witness quoted by Info Regione. “There were no less than 15, 20 shots everywhere and people running,” he added.

Part of that sequence was captured on video in which a boy is seen running down the sidewalk as gunshots are heard. Other students and parents were able to quickly enter the school to seek refuge.

Several shell casings were scattered on the streets. Upon arrival, the Police cordoned off the area and began carrying out the related investigations.