The confrontation between Racing bars and Deportivo Cali continues to intensify. After cross threats and provocationsLa Academia fans chased and stoned Colombian team supporters at Gerli station.
The incidents were recorded on video. In the pictures you will see a large group of Racing fans running along the platform of the Roca train station. Some got off the rails and started rocking.
A young woman on a train recounted what happened on social networks. “Guys, I’m going to work like a normal day. I get on the train and I hear a group of Cali fans talking loudly. They messed up a kid who came with the Argentine champion, saying they were the owner and blah What I didn’t expect the bomb to explode in Gerli. They opened the doors and the men with the blade entered because they could not. The car went crazy, they didn’t pay for the men to arrive with bottles and knives in hand“, said Agustina Sturla, witness to what happened.
And he added: “We loudly asked those in the middle to let us out. We were literally looking at a man and we didn’t understand what was going on. We pushed the runners in that area and they. Told us ‘We don’t want to steal them, get out, run’. We got out of the car but there was no safe place, because on stage there are more people running with knives and stones“.
The girl recounted the fear experienced by the passengers: “They told us to ride in the last carriages, while shouting. We ask you to please protect a woman with a baby in her arms.. A few minutes later, they closed the doors and it started again. “
In the report, in the clashes two were injured, though he could not determine if they were fans or people left in the middle of the confrontation.
Flag theft and threats
The misunderstanding between the two fans began on Wednesday, when Racing and Melgar faced off for the South American Cup. That day, three young Deportivo Cali fans they displayed as a trophy on their social networks an Academy flag with the inscription “Burzaco”that they stole from Cylinder in the run-up to that battle.
The tension intensified when it was learned that the Colombian team’s fans will make the flag this Wednesday, in the preview of the match they will play against Boca, this Thursday, for the Copa Libertadores. Racing bar promised revenge and the Colombians doubled their bet.
Source: Clarin