23/02/2024 18:01hs.
Colo Colo’s previous visit to Argentina, when the Trans-Andeans faced Boca in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, everything ended in a scandal around the Bombonera as local and visiting fans clashed with fists. in the streets of downtown Buenos Aires. After the duel between Godoy Cruz and Jorge Almirón’s team, incidents broke out again in the center of the city of Mendoza.
There were even attacks on the Channel 7 journalistic team. In addition, a trans-Andean fan is detained after being reported for sexual abuse.
The knocked out fan
One day after the match, the Chilean fans who still remained in Mendoza fought in the center of Mendoza in the provincial capital.
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Colo Colo fan injured
According to some witnesses who were at the scene, they pointed out that a group of bars entered a business and after trying to leave without paying, employees of the place got into fist blows with them. In addition, some passersby also joined the incidents that culminated in a Chilean fan knocked out on the sidewalk. After the tumult, the police of the province of Mendoza arrested those involved in the incident.
A fan arrested for abuse
In turn, a 29-year-old woman reported to the local police that she was abused by a Chilean fan. The suspect is a 30-year-old merchant from Santiago, who has already been detained at the Third Police Station, and is at the disposal of the Prosecutor’s Unit for Crimes Against Sexual Integrity.
In the last hours, The prosecution worked to charge the man with aggravated sexual abuse with carnal access.
Attack on journalists
In Plaza Independencia, a team from Mendoza’s Channel 7 was recording the fans, led by journalist Marisol Banegas. Then, they approached them to reproach them for doing their job, and they began attacking the cameraman with flying kicks.
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The Colo Colo bar attacks journalists
The background of the bar
The scroll of the Colo Colo fans is not the desired one. In fact, Conmebol is already looking askance at the authorities of the Chilean team, given that it is not the first violent incident in which Andean sympathizers have been involved. Hours before the match against Tomba, a group of fans who had arrived from Chile had ambushed a young man in Plaza Independencia in the provincial capital. A point to highlight is that the boy was allegedly attacked by Garra Blanca fans for having a shirt similar to Boca.
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Internal Colo Colo bar fight in Mendoza
But those were not the only violent acts by Colo Colo fans, given that upon entering the Malvinas Argentina, it was the Cacique’s own fans who lashed out following an internal attack from the bar. In the midst of the riots, which also spread to other neighborhoods in Mendoza, police authorities reported that there were nine detainees, including two women and a minor under 16 years of age. Among the reasons for the arrests, the figure of “aggravated robbery in a town and in a gang” was established, by attacking several businesses in “piranha mode.”
A week ago, The match between Colo Colo and Huachipato for the Chilean Super Cup had to be suspended after the Cacique’s brave group set fire to part of the National Stadium. The reason for the incident would have occurred moments after the Chilean police took a flag from the fans.