The last
Superclásico
was the final “high guard” for
Celsa Ramírez
, the prosecutor who since 2020 has been in charge of the
City's
Special Prosecutor's Office for Mass Events , which since Friday has been headed by
Maximiliano Vence
, who, being the head of the first instance - comes from the Criminal Contravention and Misdemeanors No. 8 - he was assigned jurisdiction for that area.
In four years, her main field of work was football and she was responsible for various investigations in cases involving angry mobs or closures of stadiums or stands, with – for some – certain indulgences such as the suspicion of the president of
Boca
,
Juan Román Riquelme
, who He never called her by her first and last name and raised his suspicions that
“that lady has something against bosteros
. ”
Its scope of action will now focus on “Complex Crimes”, a prosecutor's office that will exclude everything related to football.
That spectrum will now be exclusive to Vence.
The change in the prosecutor's category has various explanations, according to the source.
When consulted by
Clarín
, Ramírez indicated her reasons.
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“I think football has completed a cycle. They were four very intense years, not even stopping on weekends
,” was the focus that the prosecutor chose in her response to explain the movement.
And in that “intensity” put forward, two factors are contained.
The first, the one that is visible: the closures of the
Nueva Chicago
stadium and the
Ferro
microstadium after political events, or the
Bombonera
and
Monumental
stands due to exceeding capacity;
the arrest of 250 River rods, the investigation for trout entries both for the
Selection
or resale in
Boca
.
The second of the factors associated with the “intensity” with which Ramírez described his function until the last day of February, is part of the background of the brave gangs: structures that do not have autonomy, but – like any organized crime – have protection in actors from spheres that, paradoxically, fight them.
According to an Infobae
publication
, his unsuccessful request to prevent the promotion in the structure of the City police force of an officer that Ramírez was investigating for his alleged ties with the Boca and River bars,
was decisive for his departure
.
On another note, and although the Executive and Judicial powers are autonomous in theory, a political shock also explains the movement, no longer as a decision by the prosecutor, but as a reorganization.
Ramírez was sworn in as prosecutor in 2014 during Mauricio Macri
's second term
as head of the Buenos Aires government and was always accused of allegedly aligning himself with
Daniel Angelici
, former president of Boca, proponent of radicalism and judicial "operator."
Angelici's support for the candidacy of
Martín Loustau
for the head of Government as opposed to that of
Jorge Macri
, the new authority of CABA, would be, according to some analyses, the compelling reason that explains the name change in the specialized prosecutor's office.
Due to fatigue from the “intensity” of the function, political reasons or spurious contacts between the bars and the Police,
Celsa Ramírez's management
in matters of violence in football
came to an end on Friday.
From now on, it will be Vence who takes care of it and he will not do it for the first time.
In 2019, a year before the creation of the prosecutor's office that now has him as its head, he had faced the investigation for death threats against
Rodolfo D'Onofrio
when he was president of River, in addition to other causes of ticket resale at the Monumental stadium. .
The most resonant cases of Ramírez
The Riquelmes, Juan Román and Cristian, in one of the boxes at the Bombonera.
Among Ramírez's investigations, the one from two years ago that determined the arrests of
Héctor Godoy
–
Caverna
, who was the leader of Los Borrachos del Tablón- and
Emiliano D'Amico
, from the same faction, stands out;
The cases against
Rafael Di Zeo and Mauro Martín
-heads of “La 12”- and an operation that was decisive for the fall of
Walter Coronel
,
or Tin Tín
, also a Boca bar, but head of the Los Andes fans and leader in 2021 of a group that was trying to take control of the Excursionistas.
The investigation that most exposed her was the one that led to a raid on the home of
"Chanchi" Riquelme
, brother of the president - then vice - of Boca in the context of trout or resale tickets for Boca's home games.
On that occasion - a few months before the elections in Boca - Román appeared in the media and suggested that the prosecutor had "something personal with the Riquelme family" and asked her to return the "computer" to her three-year-old niece who had used to "watch videos and dance."
Shortly after, the offices of two prosecutors in the City of Buenos Aires – among them that of Ramirez – were attacked by a group of Boca fans in the run-up to the Superclásico in October last year.