Last Sunday, December 27, the final of Colombian soccer between Santa Fe and América de Cali, which was played at the El Campín stadium in Bogotá, generated controversy due to the agglomerations of fans that occurred in the middle of the epidemiological situation for the covid-19 pandemic.
As a result of this, they met criticism against the Mayor’s Office for allowing bars from both teams to meet and for the celebrations made by the fans of the Valle del Cauca team after winning the 15th star in the capital.
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The mayor Claudia Lopez returned to refer to the subject and launched taunts against the National Government, affirming that it was the executive who allowed the realization of the local league and he assured that only a small part of the fans was the one who took to the streets that day.
“Son the National Government and Dimayor who authorized the Colombian soccer tournament. We mayors do not have the power to prohibit, unfortunately, those decisions, “Lopez initially said.
“However, I want to reiterate something to the public. In a football final 100,000 local fans usually come out; soccer final is often accompanied by deaths, injuries and injuries“, added the Mayor in a press conference.
“In this soccer final we didn’t have 100,000 citizens on the streets. The bars, all of them, made an enormous effort to stay home. In total, in the city of Bogotá, out of eight million inhabitants 5,000 people came out on match day“, he sentenced.
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The mayor also highlighted that there were zero deaths, zero people injured and only three fights that did not have major importance, for which the device that was installed that day to maintain security in the Colombian capital stood out.
The final was also the subject of controversy because information was disseminated on social networks stating that at least 900 people had entered the stadium to watch the game, which was denied by the district administration.
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