Alleged Santa Fe fans robbed and assaulted Millonarios fans near El Campín stadium

A witness narrated how the alleged followers of the albirrojo group, one of them with a machete, entered a store to attack those who left there

Four days after a pitched battle took place between two Atlético Nacional bars on the Chía-Cota road, there was a new incident of violence between alleged fans of football teams, only in the vicinity of El Campín Stadium.

In a store on 57th street with transversal 28, where they also sell beer, a group of subjects wearing garments alluding to Independiente Santa Fe rebuked some young people with a Millionaire t-shirt who were distributing. He also assaulted, threatened and stole the belongings of another group of friends, without elements of the Ambassador, who was resting after a football match on synthetic courts in the area.

In a video shared by the Citytv Night Owl of the establishment's security cameras, you can see how some fans of the cardinal ensemble approached a table where some fans of Millonarios were drinking. After a moment, they left and returned with more people to enter the bad guys to the place.

Although the store owners tried to mediate the situation and even ran a fence to prevent the aggressors from entering, they could do nothing. With chairs, blunt objects and machetes they intimidated customers.

The same young man referred to by the witness was wounded in the head, so much so that, immediately after the alleged fans of the red and white box left, they had to take him to a medical center.

“They threw him on the floor, broke his head completely. We had to transfer him to San Ignacio Hospital and the whole thing because there was no ambulance support,” he added. There was also another citizen affected by stab injuries.

Not content to injure those inside the establishment, two bicycles were stolen, according to the witness. Faced with the impossibility of removing some chains and locks with which they were tied, they moved them like this. Among several they took them and then fled to the north of the stadium.

In addition to acts of violence on the outskirts and inside Bogotá, this week there were clashes between fans in other parts of the country. Prior to the engagement between Once Caldas and Atlético Bucaramanga at the Palogrande Stadium for matchday 14 of the BetPlay League, groups of fans from both teams were caught on some cameras fighting with machete and insulting each other on public roads.

The situation, for the welfare of the inhabitants of Manizales, was handled by the Metropolitan Police, which arrested 17 barristas, two of them suspected of injuring a fan of the 2004 Copa Libertadores winner with a knife to the abdomen.

“Due to the event, the Metropolitan Police tightened measures and is holding back all fans who carry bladed weapons. Of the 17 detainees, two are suspected of causing the injury. The authorities accompany and inspect the buses arriving today in Manizales on the occasion of the match. They were also able to establish that the Bucaramanga fans who participated in this confrontation were in the municipality for days,” the Government Secretariat of Manizales reported at the time.

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