At least 22 people were injuredtwo of gravity, after one crowded fight among fans of Mexican football clubs Queretaro and Atlas during the last-minute dispute of Saturday’s match at the Corregidora Stadium (of the Querétaro team) in the center of the country.
The Civil Protection Coordination of the State of Querétaro has reported on Twitter that 22 people were injured, nine of whom were taken to the General Hospital, two of them in serious condition. Incidents started in the 60th minute of the match, when hundreds of fans of both teams faced off in a massive fight and many invaded the field of play, a situation that forced the game to be suspended.
The Mexican Football League has suspended the day as a gesture of rejection for the incidents. “I strongly condemn today’s violence at the Corregidora stadium. The company that owns Gallos and institutions will have to answer for the facts. I have given instructions for the law to be enforced with all its consequences. There is no impunity in Querétaro “, the governor of the state, Mauricio Kuri, said in a Twitter message collected by the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
The governor added that he had instructed the Secretary of Public Security to help the state prosecutor’s office to find “these perpetrators as soon as possible.” “These are not fanatics, they are frantic, and we will make the frantic ones lose the weight of the law,” he said.