2023-08-12 06:29:19
The Libertadores or the Sudamericana have a B-side for any Argentina fan who wants to follow their team away from home. It happens since the cups were not televised and generated their own mythology, both inside and outside a field, but it has been reinforced in recent weeks with scenes in the stands of the Brazilian stadiums or in the streets of Montevideo. All with a common denominator: the police repressing the Argentine partiality.
What the people who traveled to Rio de Janeiro experienced to see Argentinos Juniors against Fluminense last Tuesday was not a party, but a nightmare. The same president of the La Paternal club, Cristian Malaspina, described it as a deliberate lock: “The location of the visiting box was a delivery; very disappointed with the leadership of Fluminense. We were attacked by the visiting public, private security and the military police, ”he wrote on his social networks.
Argentinos Juniors published a three-part statement in which it gave details of the mistreatment by the organization and the simultaneous abuses by the police, who fired at point-blank range in the middle of the audience, in addition to firing tear gas: “The forces had no The objective is to avoid incidents but to provoke them and produce an escalation of violence”. The Argentine General Consulate should have provided assistance to fans who suffered this repression and the fan subcommittee, in addition to demanding immediate freedom, compared the treatment received in La Paternal to Fluminense fans and asked that Conmebol act.
Also in Brazil, Mayra Villarreal, a fan of Estudiantes who traveled to Brazil to see her team against Goias, described the ordeal she lived through before the game: “The Brazilian Police are disastrous, taking advantage of the Argentine fan and even more so of the female fan , total abuse. They made us support for more than an hour and a half against the bus. They touched us to the soul. They took us inside one by one, they made us undress and show that we had nothing”. Situations similar to those experienced by fans of Argentinos and Estudiantes were suffered by fans of San Lorenzo and Newell’s.
In dialogue with PERFIL, the director of the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports (Aprevide), Eduardo Aparicio, acknowledges that police action in some Brazilian states “is excessive”, and mentions that, unlike what happens in the giant neighboring country, in Uruguay or Colombia, in Argentina -especially in the province of Buenos Aires- Aprevide invites the consulate of each country to act as overseer of the police operation that receives and organizes the entry and exit of the visiting groups .
The repression of the Boca fans in Uruguay, before the first leg against Nacional, was widely circulated on both banks of the Río de la Plata, but what did not circulate so much was what happened when Argentinos played against Liverpool in the group stage : The 23 buses were detained for more than six hours at the Fray Bentos border crossing, which meant that more than half of the fans arrived in Montevideo with the game started.
But the hostility does not come only from the security forces. It is already common for the origin of the confrontations between Brazilian and Argentine fans to have the same sequence: a Brazilian –or several– burning the Argentine thousand-peso bill and making fun of a constant devaluation. It happened the other day in Rosario, in the match between Newell’s and Corinthians for the round of 16 of the South American Cup. And it had happened a few weeks ago with the Rosario team against Santos. The director of the Museum of Memory of Rosario, Lucas Massuco, gave a sociological meaning to these quarrelsome postcards: “It is violent to mock a very delicate situation, such as our economy, which costs lives, because it means poverty, exclusion, marginality”, said.
Aparicio points out that, from now on, any fan of a foreign club that proceeds in this way will be included in the violation of articles 10 and 14 of Law 11,929 of Argentina, which are provocation and incitement to violence. La Aprevide, in conjunction with the district police, will individualize, identify and “transfer the person involved to the police station with jurisdiction in the stadium, a place where rigorous actions will be carried out and will impose a ban on attendance at Sports Shows.” The most succulent will be the economic sanction to the club, which will reach up to one hundred thousand dollars. A money that does not guarantee anything, but at least puts a value on the abuse.
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