From the third ring of the Antel Arena, during the third quarter, a fan located in the Peñarol sector threw a flask onto the field that fell very close to the players and shattered, stopping the game for several minutes.
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as far as he could tell RefereelThe aurinegros directors remarked that the club makes a huge investment in security, that the security operation at the Antel Arena had some flaws, that the club is working to eradicate the violent from its fans and that it has a firm will that those responsible for the act be identified and prevented from entering sports venues.
“We are the team that makes the largest investment in security, we pay for the use of facial recognition cameras, we pay for spirometry controls, we carry out a network communication campaign, but 99% of Peñarol fans are left in the hands of some misplaced commit an act of violence,” Gonzalez had told the May 26 Referee.
A day earlier, who is also secretary general of Peñarol had to go to the Prosecutor’s Office to testify before the prosecutor Fernando Romanowho studies acts of violence in sports to prosecute cases and enter violent fans on the list of disabled that the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) keeps and that governs all sports activities that take place in the country.
“The Prosecutor is putting together several cases that are related to Peñarol, such as that of Colón, that of the bottle, and it all started with the incidents in December at the party that we celebrated the championship. On behalf of Peñarol, you are offered all the information you need because the faster those responsible are identified and they can be removed from the scenarios, the fewer problems we are going to have,” González told a radio outlet.
“Peñarol filed a criminal complaint with a home video, recorded with a telephone, where people are seen throwing glasses and food and they are also going to be identified to enter them on the blacklist. In addition, the Antel Arena was asked for all the videos from its cameras and we passed them on to the Ministry of the Interior so that they go through the facial scan and identify people to also enter them on the blacklist.
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“The prosecutor wants to collect information, names, any type of information or data that we may have. The Colón thing is very late, because I am convinced that a lot of names are going to come out of there that are going to go on the black list and if those people were already admitted they would not have gone to the Antel Arena. I think we have to act more quickly. It has a number of complaints and that study could not be done with the due diligence and promptness. The faster we get the misfits out of the stands, the calmer those of us who want to go to the shows will be,” he added.
“We were all watching the game, we know that the flask came out of the third ring and nothing more, From 20 meters, the security guard was each at their doors and controls, that’s why the Antel Arena cameras would be the fundamental test, the issue is that they can have the ability to identify a face because the cameras focus on the grandstand, it’s difficult “, he stated González who affirmed that the operation failed because in no game of Peñarol in the season was a glass bottle entered.
The leader also criticized the area where the judges left the field at halftime, where they were insulted and spat on by Peñarol fans.
The FUBB, through its security department, has already identified a person from Peñarol due to the excesses at the Antel Arena.
Anyway, The complaints of the case have already entered the Court of Penalties which is the body that will impose a new sanction on Peñarol, the fourth of the 2021-2022 season. The arbitration team also denounced having received spitting at the end of the first half when they were heading to the locker room area.
“In Peñarol you don’t abandon. I’m very bitter, I’m hot with this, With the efforts of all my fellow directors, the technical staff and the players, we have to stop this and take the measures to stop it, I have to provide all the elements for Justice to act. Because if not this will affect the institution. These people are far from being Peñarol fans, from loving and protecting the club. We already have nine courts closed for next season, we have to see how many more they are going to close, we are going to have a significant economic blow, but the project is here to stay, “he said.
“We have to accommodate ourselves as a club, which is our responsibility, to handle ourselves in a more careful and severe way with respect to the fan who is going to encourage basketball and the FUBB must adapt to the fact that it has a team that has everything: workers , fans of good and also misfits. In Peñarol , for the playoffs and the semis, all the fans paid their ticket by putting their ID and their name, there were no people on the black list or who did not have a ticket. And it has to be that way because the prices of the Antel Arena were very hard for a worker. Peñarol has 700 people on the blacklist, I have no doubt that Peñarol improves basketball, you can see it in the rating, being in the little one that Peñarol doesn’t serve me is throwing down and not throwing up,” he added.
