Tomorrow evening at 21 at the Gewiss Stadium, Atalanta will host Cristiano Ronaldo’s Manchester United. A match that could help Gasperini’s team qualify for the Champions League final phase.
A rather tense eve that was also tainted by a bad episode of violence. Last night, in a pub in the city center, some Atalanta ultras entered the club where some Manchester United fans were and attacked them. In addition to an injured maid, some glass was broken and smoke bombs were launched. Other pubs in Bergamo were also subjected to raids by local supporters, without consequences.
The Digos of the Bergamo police headquarters opened the investigations and carried out four searches and proceeded to seize various material against Atalantine supporters already known to the police for episodes of stadium violence. The investigations follow what happened at the Ritual pub in Bergamo, where over twenty people misrepresented and armed with sticks – the police reconstructed – broke in “in order to attack some supporters of Manchester United, present in this capital since yesterday in order to attend the Champions League match that will be played with Atalanta ». “The action – explains the police headquarters – lasted a few seconds, with the launch of objects and a smoke bomb at the address of those present in the room, however, despite the fact that the contact between subjects was short, an English fan reported a slight bruise on the shoulder and a local employee was injured in the face by glass shards of a bottle and had to resort to health care to suture the wound ». There are also some video surveillance images under review by Digos.
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The Atalanta supporters also raised discussions about the episode that occurred during the Serie A match against Lazio. A coin thrown from the stands reached the head of Reina, the Lazio goalkeeper. The Bergamo Police Headquarters has identified the perpetrators of the throwing of objects. The Bergamo-based company, in a note, explains that “it will take action so that the inhibition measures to the plant are immediately applied in the terms that will be defined by the competent authorities”.
The sanctions were not long in coming and the Bergamo police commissioner, Maurizio Auriemma, issued three daspo with a duration of 5 years each against BL, 20, with a clean record, FL, 28, with a clean record, and ZG, 54, already reached by a similar provision and “rehabilitated” in 2019.