The battle that took place before the game between ultras of the palm trees y Flamengo in the streets of São Paulo left multiple people injured and one dead after the Brazilian press reported on the death of the young fan Gabriela Anelliwho suffered the impact of a glass bottle on the neck.
The 23-year-old woman, who was in line to enter the Allianz Parque stadium was left in the middle of the fight between both sides radicals on Rua Padre Antonio Tomaz. Although the police intervened to stop the riots, it was too late to prevent the tragic episode.
After the incident, Anelli was taken by ambulance to the Santa Casa hospital in the city and, according to the Secretary of Security, He had entered the medical center “in serious condition”. After suffering two cardiac arrests, the young woman lost her life.
“It was not a health problem that killed her”said Gabriela’s mother, Dicilene Prado Anelle dos Santos in dialogue with G1 before the first information that came to light, and added: “What killed her was a bottle that cut her jugular.”
Along the same lines, his brother Felipe explained: “His wound was in the neck area, where he hit an artery. She underwent surgery and had two cardiac arrests and a lung problem. Hours later, he thanked “everyone who prayed for her sister’s life” and said goodbye to her on her social media: “I love you sister, your beautiful smile will be forever in my memory.”
“That was pretty much his fun. On weekends, the trips she made. It was the way she found herself. It was his life. Palmeiras, and the fans. That was it”explained his father, Ettore Amarchiano Neto, to G1. That day, they had agreed to meet inside the stadium and it wasn’t until he left the venue that he found out what had happened.
The clashes between both sides they were recorded in videos that users shared on social networks and, in one of them, it was possible to see the moment in which the young woman suffered the impact and how a group of fans tried to help her.
thanks to those pictures the police detained a suspicious man of throwing the bottle. As reported by the Brazilian newspaper, it would be a 26-year-old Flamengo fan who was placed in pretrial detention after being accused of intentional homicide. César Saad, delegate of the Department of Strategic Police Operations, explained that the assailant took the risk of killing when he released the projectile from his hand.
“I can’t believe it, Gabi, a 23-year-old girl full of dreams. He lost his life because of these madmen and an act of sheer cowardice. People are sick because of soccer,” said Mariana, the victim’s cousin.
