Violence in Rosario: brutal clash between Boca fans, Gimnasia and police, with Riquelme in the middle of the stands for the Argentina Cup

The images reminded us of those moments of continuous violence on the Argentine football fields and explained, perhaps, the decision not to welcome visitors to stadiums many years ago. The fans of Mouth, Gymnastics La Plata and the Police of Rosario this Wednesday overshadowed an evening that should have been a party due to the attitude of some Xeneize fans, who before the start of the second half threw the seats from the upper stalls towards the popular Lobo bench. The intervention of the police only aggravated the events with rubber bullets and, in an iconic moment, President Juan Román Riquelme joined the fans of the blue team to stop the confusion, which lasted half an hour..

That intervention by Riquelmenext to “Chicho” Serna, Raul Cascini AND Marcelo Delgado -members of the Football Council-, it was essential to prevent the problems from becoming even more serious. Because after identifying him in the ‘lung’ from where the police were shooting pepper spray and rubber bullets from one side to the other, the gang members began to retreat from their position and slow down their attitude.

Of course, at that point, the members of “La 12”, the Xeneize crowd, had already left their place in the popular, forced an access gate to the audience to rush to “take control” of the stop, because those of Lobo, victims in the first instance, they also invaded a forbidden space and received repression from the police.

These attacks by Boca fans located in the upper part of the Boca sector were the genesis of the conflict. Those in Gimnasia, in the popular area below, began to receive a shower of places. There were no police officers in the area where the problems started.

Then Lobo’s people wanted to break through an access to respond to these attacks, but a police cordon activated their weapons, provoking a reaction from the players of both teams, who were already at the edges of the audience, asking who the troops were. doing.

Gimnasia footballers began distributing bottles of water, while Marcos Rosso AND Luis Advincula They hung on the fence to try to convince Bar Boca to abandon its goal of tearing down the gate and join the conflict. They didn’t make it.

Running through the audience, the members of La 12 ran into the audience in the lower area who were trying to escape because they had nothing to do with it. When they reached the front line, the police began firing rubber bullets and pepper spray.

At that moment Riquelme appeared, along with the rest of the club’s officials, to embrace the fans and herd them as if they were cattle. He succeeded.

After almost 25 minutes of violence, the idol president made his way through the people to return to his place on a stage in the middle of the audience. Everything continued as if nothing had happened. It was, once again, the famous ‘Everything happens’.