The River bars, four years without entering the pitch: how many there are and how they manage the stands with right of entry

Although the justice of Buenos Aires has released the 30 barrabrava of River arrested after clashes between factions of The drunks on the bridgein the vicinity of MonumentalTHE maximum penalty From four-year ban on attending stadiums for various violations of Law 5.847, which establishes in several of its articles and paragraphs the legal and institutional bases of the “Integral Regime of Football Events of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”. The protagonists had been arrested, but were released on Monday after giving statements for the crime of “resistance to authority and injury in a fight”.

For his part, the doctor Celsa Ramírezof the Prosecutor’s Office specializing in mass events, sent his team to the River pitch to request the club’s security cameras starting from the weekend in search of further evidence of what happened on Sunday in the brawl between the bars.

One of the ideas is that all those identified in the struggle, beyond the 30 initially mentioned, are included in the list of admission feeswhere until now there are some 800 river barsof the 4,500 millionaire supporters included in the database of Safe grandstand.

It was already there among them Alexander Medinabetter known as “Ale de Budge”, who led the group that caused the episode of violence that occurred in viale Cantilo, near the Labruna bridge, with the intention of regaining power within the Fiume grandstand.

Medina started at the River bar twenty years ago, within the group of Alan Schlenker and Adrián Rousseau. He was the second line, but his power grew, to the point that he was one of the bars that traveled until the 2006 World Cup in Germany. And after the murder of Gonzalo Acro in 2007they remained on the side of Rousseau’s successors, Martín Araujo and Guillermo “Caverna” Godoy, who ended up taking over the procession and establishing themselves some time later as the new leaders.

Medina was one of the bars who threatened the referee Sergio Pezzotta in 2011 at half-time of the Promotion match against Belgrano which condemned River to relegation. And in March 2015 it began to fall. After a brawl with Tigres de México fans in the Obelisk area, before the group stage match of the Copa Libertadores, the Police intervened and they found weapons of war in the car in which Ale and his son Brian were mobilized. For this reason he was imprisoned, but was released from prison after eight months.

They also banned him from entering the field. But he continued to frequent the Monumental and manage the group in the south area of ​​the bar. At the same time, due to La Salada’s business, he ended up shot dead in June 2016 and was hospitalized in a hospital in Lomas de Zamora. And he was also the custodian of the events of the Truckers, the union managed by Hugo and Pablo Moyano.

In September 2019, after an attempt to occupy the stands before a match that River played for the Argentine Cup against Godoy Cruz on the Lanús pitch, the police arrested him again. But some time later, he was released again: he was in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, in April 2020, when They gave him house arrest.

Medina wanted to return, but couldn’t. The same bar blocked him. As if that wasn’t enough, he fell out with Caverna Godoy, although over time they ironed out their differences and met again to form a group that would try to regain power in the stands.

Godoy Cavefor his part, he had been known for a long time on the planet of River Plate, but became famous for the raid carried out in November 2018, on the eve of the truncated Libertadores final between River and Boca at the Monumental, which ended up being played in Madrid after the attack suffered by the Boca bus. During the search they found almost seven million pesos and three hundred bills.

At that time they opened in Caverna Godoy two court cases, one for money laundering which continues to be processed at the National Justice and another for ticket resale at the Buenos Aires Justice. In both, without preventive detention. But in April last year another trial was opened which left him detained he led a caravan of 253 bars trying to get into Monumental for a match against Argentinos Juniors.

That day he was accused of being the head of an illicit association plus the crime of disobedience for violating the judicial ban on attending stadiums. But that case had already been closed after Caverna had reached an agreement with Justice a payment of 50,000 pesos to Garraham Hospital as total repair of the damage and was released.

From the outside, Caverna follows all the events. His presence in Los Borrachos del Tablón dates back to the late nineties and he has been close to the managers since 2002. It was in fact one of the bars that He was an employee of the club and had a pay slipduring the presidency of José María Aguilar.

Caverna has been on the rights list for some time and after the aforementioned arrest suffered in April 2022 before a River match with Argentinos, he has weakened. To the point that today he watches from the outside while other groups take their place.

The Ferreras clan is the one he saw the opportunity to climb. The brothers cannot go to the Monumental because they have the right of entry, but they went to the Interior. We saw them, for example, at the Madre de Ciudades in Santiago del Estero, in the final of the Champions Trophy won by River against Rosario Central. They formed an alliance with bars historicalwho were in the dissident and who were their close enemies in the past and in the barcode, claim to have “betrayed” Caverna.

Mauro, Alejo, Leandro and Leonel Ferreras They are four brothers born in the city of Béccar, Buenos Aires. They command the recruitment of people in the north zone who then join the faction they are part of and distribute, as needed, in the businesses they manage: sale of merchandise and drinks on match days at the Monumental, rag operation and even security at mass events, among others.

Leandro Ferreras31 years old, he became known when in 2014 He stole Lionel Messi’s shirt after the match that the Argentine national team played against Colombia in the South American Qualifiers at the Monumental Stadium. The sequence was recorded from the broadcast and in the images you can clearly see the moment in which “La Pulga” takes off his 10 while heading towards the changing rooms and, when he had it in his hand, someone came from behind and took it off and ran away.

In the same year three of the four Ferrera brothers entered the house of Ariel “Pato” Calvici, now his ally, and threatened to kill his wife. They too were involved in the attack Diego Cadenaleader of the Western group who was stabbed on a public street and beaten unconscious.

He became much more famous Mauro Ferreras, another member of the clan. She was there Hooded who entered – together with other bars – on the Belgrano pitch in the first match of the Promotion between “Millonario” and Pirata Córdoba. Meanwhile, Alejo and Leonel were arrested accused of other crimes.

The Ferreras’ growth on the platform occurred in recent years, when in the midst of the internal war for the power of the bar they put together a team with people recruited in the town of La Cava, near Beccar.

Now they have taken more power and joined “Pato” Calvici, Hernán Taboada and Alejandro “Zapatero” Flores, who are historic bars, especially Flores, one of the bosses of Los Borrachos in the 90s. The three of them were out and part of the dissident faction, along with many people from the West.

But beyond this alliance, which brought them back to center stage, Calvici, Taboada and Flores also cannot enter the Monumental because they are on the Tribuna Sicura admission list. Of course, despite appearing in the database, they do not only enter stadiums in the city of Buenos Aires, as they have been seen in other jurisdictions, such as Santiago del Estero. For this reason he will see River on the Inter courts or as a guest in the Copa Libertadores.

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