“The Police acted well, the problem was the number of people”. With these words the head of the Departmental Headquarters of La Plata, Commissioner sebastian pereadefended the actions of his subordinates that generated the fierce repression of fans of the La Plata Gymnastics and Fencing Club who came to the Bosque stadium to witness the match against Boca Juniors, on the night of October 6, 2022. In that Marco lost his life, the renowned fan Tripero, Cesar “Lolo” Regueiro.
The causes of death is one of the edges of the case for “culpable havoc” that instructs is instructed in the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 5 of La Plata in charge of the prosecutor John Menucci who this Thursday, December 22, investigated and prosecuted Perea.
The police chief did not evade the judicial call nor was silence called. He sat across from the prosecutor, gave his version of the case and answered questions. For the commissioner “the police acted well because they attacked them with stones and if they did not react they killed them, the problem was the number of people who attended”, was the main idea of his testimony according to unobjectionable sources of the case before the consultation of 0221.com.ar.
“With this statement he loaded the inks in the club”, detailed the voices consulted by this medium. As reported in repeated previous editions, the prosecutor set his sights on the possible massive resale of tickets for that match. The police testimonies coincide in pointing out that the stadium’s capacity was almost full and there were hundreds of people with “protocol tickets” in their hands who were fighting to enter to see the sporting event.
Perea is not the only police officer prosecuted. The commissioner is noted on the list Juan Manuel Gorbaran, head of the Novena de La Plata police station on the date of the fatal event. He was detained and prosecuted for “intentional damage” but before the change in legal classification he was released by order of the judge in the case. In his investigation at UFI 5, he confirmed everything said in the previous version of him that was published by 0221.com.ar. He also answered questions from the research team.
WHAT’S COMING
Next week, on December 27 and 28 at 10:00 a.m., the head of the Buenos Aires Province Sports Safety Prevention Agency (APREVIDE) is summoned for an investigation. edward aparicio (official who reports directly to the Minister of Security Sergio Berni), and the former head of the host club, Gabriel Pellegrino. The prosecution of the former boss Tripero is the gateway to other possible accusations of former leaders of Gymnastics for the possible crime of “illicit association” that points to a potential overselling of tickets in that match.
From the investigation emerge what obligations are imposed on the organizer of the eventthat is to say, the host club (Pellegrino), the head of the operation and his supervisor (Perea and Gorbarán) and APREVIDE (Aparicio). “As an example, the regulations provide for measures to prevent the issuance of tickets greater than the permitted capacity, which are diagrammed in adequate security measures prior to determining the dangerousness of the match and the risk of the stadium, and which is evaluated under the latter. parameter the time of the meeting, its location and the way to sell the tickets-and how they should be made-; among other circumstances”, reasoned the prosecutor. But “Not only at that point were there voluntary breaches, but also before and during the meeting they proceeded negligently and recklessly”.
“Thus, on the one hand, more tickets were sold than allowed by the stadium, at the same time it was arranged that it be carried out in a place and at an inappropriate time considering the expectations, not having correctly carried out the risk assessment, to the couple that allowed the use of deterrence elements in such a way that they had a massive reach with respect to people who could not avoid it, which led to injuries to thousands of people”, stated Menucci, who considers that “it is appropriate to evaluate not only the actions police personnel who exceeded the use of long weapons provided for containment (firing at individual targets when they did not constitute a threat) as well as those people who, regardless of the context, attacked with a large number of objects forceful attacks on part of the police personnel who were guarding the entrances to the stadium”.
The four new defendants made “negligent” or “reckless” contributions that led to the harmful result, “as if they all put a stone on a glass surface that by itself would not break it but together overcomes its resistance,” he graphed and added : “Each and every one of the accused persons acted in violation of their duties, before and during the sporting event, since they were responsible for its organization; and some even acted negligently during its development.”
320 police officers took part in the security operation at the stadium. The agent Fernando Nahuel Falconstated that “it all begins once the head of service orders the doors to close because APREVIDE informs him that monitoring reports that the stadium’s capacity was complete.”
After the repression, the Buenos Aires Police was removed from the investigation. Instead, experts from the Argentine Federal Police arrived who raised “450 pods served with anti-riot cartridges”. According to an Internal Affairs resolution, Capt. martin market of the Departmental Support Group (GAD) “would have recklessly and without any justification thrown a tear gas bomb and a smoke bomb, which had been scattered around the playing field, causing serious consequences to the people who were in inside the stadium.” He was disaffected from the force.
A witness said that the riots began at gate 21, which is on the Bosque side, where a group of between 500 and 800 people were fighting to enter the stadium.
