Pitched battle in Merlo: players and fans faced blows after a soccer match | Football24 News English

Battle pitched in the Merlo soccer league

A match of the Merlo soccer league ended in a pitched battle that not only involved the players of the match: the fans jumped onto the pitch and attacked the protagonists with punches and kicks.

The sequence was recorded in a video released by the media Merlo Real, in which dozens of people are distinguished who are part of a dispute watched by hundreds of spectators, who had come to the place to watch the match between Altos de Merlo and Loma Florida.

While some fans cheered for the dispute to continue, others interceded to prevent the situation from turning into a tragic scenario; the fight was quickly dispelled.

The confrontation was recorded in a video recorded by a fan from the tribune

At the end of December 2020, another abrupt confrontation occurred in Merlo in the city center. There, two groups of young people staged a fierce fight that ended with two hospitalized people and with Leonardo Orgoroso, head of Civil Defense, also attacked when he tried to calm the brawl

In addition to fist bumps, they were kicked in the body and on the head, and whipped with a metal object by one of the youths, who in the midst of the tumult fled. As in the soccer game, there were no arrests.

What happened in the Merlo league allowed us to remember what happened less than a month ago, where a man was beaten and kicked to death during a fight that originated while a football game was being played in a complex of courts in the Buenos Aires town of Tortuguitas.

The players faced blows with the fans who jumped onto the playing field

The fatal victim was the father of a footballer who participated in the meeting, as part of a tournament that was taking place in the place. Three suspects were arrested for the crime, including a woman who was also a spectator.

The incident occurred in a rental soccer field located at 3400 José Hernández street called “La Tortuga”. There a tournament was taking place that had been organized by the owner of that complex. The incidents occurred after a play in the game played by the teams “La Serrano” and “Deportivo Nogués”, which led to a fight between the footballers, which was joined by spectators.

According to the agency Telam and confirmed Infobae from police sources, in the middle of that fight the father of one of the footballers, Juan Mateo Noriega, a 63-year-old from Hurlingham, was beaten up and vanished on the court. After the attack, the witnesses alerted the police and requested an ambulance.

Juan Mateo Noriega was beaten and kicked to death after a football match

Once in place, The emergency service personnel tried to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but they were unsuccessful and the man died. Thus, according to the first information, the man died as a result of the beating, since he received a large number of kicks in the head.

The incident was in charge of the prosecutor Carlos Hermello, head of UFI No. 18 of Malvinas Argentinas, who during that week, after collecting a series of testimonies and carrying out different investigative tasks, ordered the arrest of three suspects, two men and one woman identified as Carlos Ezequiel R., 29, Sebastián Osmar S., 35, and Mónica Celina R., 33. Meanwhile, as the hours passed, there was a new arrest of a 21-year-old man named Lucas Nahuel L.

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