This Sunday, the City Police seized
three pig heads from
River
fans
who tried to bring them into the Monumental stadium, prior to the Superclásico in which the local team and Boca tied 1 to 1 for the seventh date of the League Cup.
The limit between soccer folklore, in Argentina, and the passage to
discriminatory or lacerating acts
is blurry.
Rivalry can lead to acts of violence, although they may even seem like colorful and friendly situations.
Whether they are nicknames, memories of matches or milestones that have tattooed the history of both clubs with fire.
The Xeneizes fans are remembered showing chickens in the stands during a superclassic during the '90s in the Bombonera or the inflatable chancho in 2011, when they officially faced each other again after the million-dollar relegation a year before.
Flags, balloons, t-shirts, street posters and countless resources are part of what, in this case, River and Boca fans have been dancing together for more than a century.
This Sunday, in Núñez, there were
three fans who will have to answer to justice
for trying to bring a mutilated animal to the most important match in vernacular soccer.
River fans wanted to enter the Monumental with pig heads to mock Boca
One of them was identified on Avenida del Libertador and Udaondo, at 3:20 p.m. after city police observed him at one of the entrances to the stadium
moving the part of the animal
.
According to the Buenos Aires security forces, this is a
21-year-old
young man who
had already been identified in other matches
with the same object in the stands.
The Central Office for Receiving Complaints led by Doctor Mola intervened, ordering the kidnapping of the animal's head and notifying the 21-year-old man for
inciting opposing bias
.
Subsequently,
two other fans were found in the same circumstances
having in their possession two heads of the same animal species, who were also notified by the intervening magistrate.
Eleven arrested before the Superclásico at the Monumental
The City Police arrested
eleven people
this Sunday in the run-up to the Superclásico for
robbery and attempted entry without tickets
.
Two were arrested after trying to rob a person in Udaondo and Libertador, after they were
beaten by fans who discovered them red-handed
.
On the other hand, there were eight more detainees for trying to access the Más Monumental stadium without a ticket.
Meanwhile, a man was also arrested in Quinteros and Bavio for hitting a police officer who wanted to identify him while he was urinating in public.
As a result of the different interventions,
two police officers were injured
, without risk of life.
D.S.