The week that begins can mark a before and after in the case where the death of the fan of the La Plata Gymnastics and Fencing Club is being investigated Cesar “Lolo” Regueiro during the fierce police repression of the security force that answers to the Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires Sergio Berni. The event occurred on the night of October 6, 20ee at the Bosque stadium where the venue received Boca Juniors. The statements of a provincial official and the former president of the club can open up new possibilities in the field of options handled by the investigation team headed by the prosecutor John Menuccihead of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 5 of La Plata.
In the file, the police chiefs were already prosecuted for “culpable havoc” sebastian perea Y Juan Manuel Gorbaran. This week it will be the turn of the head of the Sports Safety Prevention Agency (APREVIDE) of the province of Buenos Aires edward aparicio (an official who reports directly to Minister 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. On December 27 and 28 at 10:00 a.m., they are summoned to an investigation where they can declare or make use of the right to be silenced.
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.
