The match that Boca Juniors played in La Plata against Gimnasia was suspended after 9 minutes due to serious incidents outside the stadium, after the Buenos Aires Police repressed the Lobo fans. The tear gas launched by the police in the vicinity of the stadium entered the field of play and affected several players, members of the coaching staff and the public itself, who panicked. A man died of a heart attack.
Due to “lack of guarantees”, the official account of La Liga Profesional confirmed the suspension of the match.
a dead fan
A 57-year-old Gimnasia y Fencing fan died of cardiac arrest amid the repression of the Bonaerense. There were also a hundred wounded. The deceased was Carlos “Lolo” Regueiro, who, according to the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, “died when he was leaving the stadium due to cardiac arrest.”
“We came to encourage the Wolf and the fat man left me. I want to warn my dad just passed away,” wrote Juliana Regueiro on his Facebook.
Regueiro, nicknamed “Lolo”, lived in Tolosa, a town in La Plata, was an employee of the municipality and in his youth was a professional footballer at Club Atlético Villa San Carlos -which today plays in Primera B- and in the Liga Platense de Fútbol .
In the midst of the clashes that the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires caused with supporters after beating a minorRegueiro decompensated and was urgently transferred to the San Martín hospital in a SAME ambulance, in which they performed CPR maneuvers on him, but he died on the mobile before reaching his destination.
For Berni, the fault lies with Gimnasia
Sergio Berni remarked that the “responsibility for what happened lies entirely with the organizing club of the show”, by disassociating the police that drives from the violent action that was recorded in hundreds of videos.
For his part, the head of Aprevide, Eduardo Aparicio, defined responsibilities in the police action “because there were about 10,000 people outside the stadium when the doors had already closed.”
Conversely, the president of Gimnasia, Gabriel Pellegrino, assured that he had to show “that the stadium is enabled for 30,000 people. We sold 3,254 tickets out of 4,300 that were sent to us since the rest were members and it is the police that determines the number of people coming in.”
“People wanted to enter with their cards in hand and we saw empty stalls. Those who closed the doors were the security agencies, the police and the Aprevide”, argued the head gymnast.
when will the match be played
The meeting that lowered the curtain on matchday 23 of the Professional League still has no date for completion. This is a promising duel between two teams that are fighting inch by inch to win the title. In El Bosque, Boca Juniors tried to recover the top of the tournament that was left in the hands of Atlético Tucumán, after Wednesday’s victory against Platense.
The head of the Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports, Eduardo Aparicio, assured last night that the match will not be resumed this Friday. “The game is not going to be played tomorrow in any way,” Aparicio said in a dialogue with the cable signal TyC Sports.