The cause of death of Cesar “Lolo” Regueiro It advances slowly while the investigative statement of the former president of Gymnastics is awaited, Gabriel Pellegrino, scheduled for next February. The son of the deceased fan that tragic match against Boca Juniors in the Forest renewed the request for justice days before the healthy mens club plays again.
The pain for the death of Lolo does not cease and still has an enormous weight in the memory of the gymnastics people; especially in the Regueiro family, which continues to seek strength to face a trial against the authorities in charge of the party’s security on the night of October 6, 2022. “Everything is very nice… a new tournament is starting. The World Cup has passed, the holidays… but let’s not forget the request for justice for my old man”began writing the son of Lolo.
The young man still misses his father and does not give up on the request for all his people and Justice. “He went to see a football match and because of the police repression he is no longer physically with us. Do not leave us alone in this demand for justice,” he added.
Among other messages emphasizing the way in which the security operation in charge of the Buenos Aires Security Minister, Sergio Berni, repressed the gymnastics public, the son of the deceased fan said: “If this was not repression, what is it? For the prosecutor it was not a violent death. Neither forgetfulness nor forgiveness”hill.
The cause began in the framework of a match played by the Gimnasia and Esgrima La Plata clubs that received Boca Juniors. For reasons that are trying to be established, hundreds of people were fighting to enter the Bosque stadium, but the doors were closed because the capacity was almost full. In this context, the fans began to throw stones at the police personnel who responded with a battery of tear gas and rubber bullets.
Due to the effect of the wind, the gases entered the stadium, the match was suspended and left the balance of one person deadanother fan (Rodrigo Arballo) lost his left eye, his girlfriend received several impacts from rubber bullets in the back and hundreds of fans with respiratory problems who recovered over the course of hours.
In the file, together with Aparicio, they were already prosecuted by the police chiefs Sebastián Perea and Juan Manuel Gorbarán. On the other hand, the prosecution of Pellegrino is the gateway to other possible accusations of former leaders of Gymnastics for the crime of “illicit association” that points to a potential overselling of tickets in that match.
320 police officers took part in the security operation at the stadium. Agent Fernando Nahuel Falcón stated that “it all begins once the service chief 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 of anti-riot cartridges.” According to an Internal Affairs resolution, Captain Martín Mercado of the Departmental Support Group (GAD) “recklessly and without any justification threw a tear gas bomb and a smoke bomb, which had been scattered around the playing field , causing serious consequences to the people who were inside the stadium”.
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.
