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The Prosecutor’s Office requests prison for 82 ultras of Atlético y Deportivo for Jimmy’s deadly fight

Image of the rescue of the fan who died in 2014 taken from a video.

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The trial will be held this Thursday in Madrid under tight security measures and the defendants face between 9 and 31 months in prison.

Mateo Balin

The Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has asked the criminal court to sentence to prison 82 ultras from Atlético de Madrid and Deportivo de la Coruña who were part of the massive fight that took place on the banks of the Manzanares on the morning of November 30 of 2014, the result of which the sports fan Francisco Javier Romero Taboada, Jimmy, 41-year-old from A Coruña and father of a son, died as a result of injuries sustained after being thrown into the river.

In the trial to be held this Thursday under tight security measures, the Public Prosecutor’s Office is demanding sentences ranging from nine to 31 months in prison for the defendants. The majority face nine months except five, to which the aggravating circumstance of recidivism has been applied. In addition, for the defendants A COG and JKM, another year in prison is requested for a crime of attacking an agent of authority and others ten months for injuries, while requesting 18 more months for four more defendants: AMJ, DAA, JEAR and JLZP for a crime of illegal possession of weapons.

The Prosecutor’s Office recalls that on November 30, 2014, on the occasion of the match that was to be played at 12 in the morning at the Vicente Calderón stadium between Atlético and Deportivo, the ultras of both teams, known as Frente Atlético and Riazor Blues, “were called through messages on social networks to go around 9 am to the vicinity of Avenida del Manzanares.”

Ideological “primacy”

According to the accusation, the fans of the two teams are of opposite political ideologies, “the former from the extreme right” and “the latter from the extreme left.” Thus, “with the sole motivation of demonstrating to the other group the primacy of their team and the ideology with which they identify themselves,” they acted “at all times” as a group to fight.

Some carried prohibited weapons and dangerous instruments such as wooden sticks, aluminum sticks, batons, baseball bats, knives, carabiners, extendable defenses and despite the fact that “this point was known and accepted by all the participants”, both groups attacked “reciprocally”. » in a «violent, confused, random and tumultuous» way.

As a consequence of said brawl, many of the participants were injured, “without it being possible to identify the perpetrators of the injuries individually, and a Riazor Blues follower, Jimmy, died, which is the subject of investigation in another procedure », recalls the letter.

As part of the police intervention caused by the situation, some agents received “all kinds of blows” when they stopped and identified some of the participants in the fight. Specifically, the defendants COG and JKM, who had their faces covered with clothing to avoid being recognized, attacked a policewoman, whom they threw to the ground, causing several injuries: fracture of the fourth finger of her left hand, traumatic cervical contracture, and contusion in the region inner tibialis of the right leg. The trial will begin at 9:30 this Thursday in the criminal court number 23 of Madrid.

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