The actual Escalation of violence between Peñarol and Nacional bars rose one more step this Tuesday after Aurinegros fans claimed with songs in the middle of a basketball game against Trouville the death of Washington Omar Simón, the tricolor fan who died this Monday.
“A minute of silence for the Washi that is dead”, was one of the songs sung, according to videos that circulated in the last hours on social networks, in which the fans are seen in the stands of the Peñarol Palace during the match .
In another, filmed elsewhere, fans are seen jumping and singing “… when the doctor said ‘sir, fat Washi died’, how can I explain …”.
The songs refer to the death of Washington Omar Simón, one of the 16 Nacional fans convicted of the murder of Peñarol fan Hernán Fiorito perpetrated in 2016 in Saint Lucia.
As he knew RefereeOn the basis of testimonies from journalists present at the Peñarol Palace match, there were more violent chants from Peñarol fans directed at their traditional rival and the match was never stopped by the songs.
The songs are given to days of the classic between tricolor and aurinegros in basketball, which will be played next Friday 21 at 19 at the Antel Arena.
In addition, both clubs will also meet in the soccer classics set for January 22 at the Centenario Stadium and for January 26 at the Maldonado Campus, both for summer tournaments. The Interior Ministry is evaluating suspending these parties due to the escalation of violence in recent days.
Escalation of violence
Simón, to whom Peñarol fans sang, was shot at the fair known as Vía Blanca –which takes place on 8 de Octubre avenue every January 5– and lost his life this Monday. He had been admitted to the Pasteur Hospital and then transferred to the Casmu.
In November 2021, Simón was sentenced for the crime of Fiorito to 23 years and one month in prison, as the criminally responsible perpetrator of two crimes of “very particularly aggravated homicide”, one attempted and the other of “especially aggravated personal injury. “on a real reiteration regime.
He was free because the sentence was decreed by the old Code of Criminal ProcedureTherefore, the authors would not go to jail until the sentence was final with the decision of a court of appeals in the second instance.
On the same day as Simón’s death, a 17-year-old adolescent, who was wearing a Peñarol shirt, was shot in the head. The murder of the young man was eight blocks from the Casmu sanatorium, where Simón was hospitalized, accompanied at the door of the hospital by a large number of Nacional fans who had been there since noon.
As he could know The Observer, the Interior Ministry investigation into this second homicide focuses on two hypotheses: that it is retaliation and that as such the crime is linked to football, or that it is a family problem. The deceased young man had no connection with the Peñarol fans.
In the escalation of violence that took place in the last hours, a WhatsApp audio sent from the Libertad prison by prisoner Erwin “Coco” Parentini also went viral. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison for being the co-perpetrator of a particularly aggravated homicide – while already being held in prison – of the murder of Nacional fan Lucas Langhain, which occurred just after the Uruguayan 2019 classic final, in which Nacional defeated Peñarol and when the tricolores began the festivities on the avenue 8 de Octubre.
In the message, Parentini says – referring to the murder of the young man from La Unión who was wearing a Peñarol T-shirt when he was shot in the head -: “Things are between adults. A child, a teenager riding a bicycle to do errands, it has nothing to do with a football fan, a football bar, that is not done “.
“It happened once, now face the consequences. You know now. Violence is fought with violence, we go there at once. They will not know how or when or where, but they will appear everywhere. Now a gale is comingNow a gale is coming, don’t be surprised at anything, “he concludes.
Controversy over the songs
The violent chants in Uruguayan soccer are common in the stands and also outside them.
Recently, after the Uruguayan Soccer Championship won by Peñarol, Aurinegros soccer players, leaders and coaches were summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office after videos were released in which they were seen singing violent slogans in the celebrations of the title.
In addition, directors of Nacional were also summoned by flagrante delicto Fernando Romano, who was in charge of both cases, also for violent chants recorded during the club’s election celebrations.
Both cases were shelved.
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