Tragedy in Chile! »At least two dead in the capital. The angry fans entered the field and stopped the match!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Friday, April 11, 2025, 11:54 / Updated on Friday, April 11, 2025 11:54
The match between Colors and Fortaleza in Cope's Libertadores groups was abandoned last night in the 72nd minute, after at least two young supporters of the hosts died in the incidents with the police off the monumental stadium.
Another drama has occurred in South American football on the stadium. At least two people died, according to the information given by the police in Santiago de Chile, following the serious clashes outside the arena, whose gates were forced by his supporters there, in an attempt to jump the fences and enter the match without a ticket!
According to sources in the Chilean press and the announcement made by the local authorities, it is a 13-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl, who lost their lives before the start of the E-group match in Copa Libertadores.
The fans were stopped with tear gas and water cannons!
There are fears that the number of those who would have died could be higher, in addition to the supporters wounded in the battles with law enforcement, who intervened with water and tear gas cannons to stop climbing the barbed wire fences! The police had to call even armored vehicles in the street fights with the aggressive supporters of them.
The tragedy took place when the public order control units of the Carabineros militarized police (COP) wanted to disperse the supporters, throwing water under armored vehicles and mobilizing around the monumental stadium significant intervention forces.
The eyewitnesses said that “a fence with fans who climbed him was collapsed and a young man was trapped, was crushed and suffocated in the jelly” and could not be saved by doctors. The other confirmed victim is a teenager who would have been trampled by a police car. It was urgently transported to the hospital, but it arrived “without showing vital signs” and the doctors declared the death!
“The driver of the vehicle is suspicious, but it was arrested”
“The person driving the car is currently suspicious, although it was not arrested,” announced the police spokesman in Montevideo, Francisco Morales. “These two victims, along with at least one hundred other people, tried to break the access gates in trying to enter the monumental, and the incident took place in this unclear context,” a Written the daily commercial.
Despite these serious incidents, the approval was given that the match would start. The public vehemently protested several times during the game and tried to break the gates and plexilglas fences from the lawns to penetrate the field and cause other incidents.
In the 72nd minute, they succeeded and caused the game to interrupt, the referee being forced to whistle the party. This is because the players of Fortaleza were scared and fled to the locker rooms.
His fans there were breaking the gates, stopping the game in the 72nd minute
Like a part of his footballers there, others trying to quench them, together with the scouts and stewards, the fans escaped from under control, who filled the stands beyond the maximum capacity!
In an official statement, Conmebol said that “the department of competitions and operations informed that, due to the lack of security guarantees from the local club and the local authorities mandated to intervene to ensure the continuation of the match between Colors (Chi) and Fortaleza (Bra) from the Groups of Cope Libertadore 2025, the match is canceled”.
“My sister was quiet, she was going to the stadium to have fun!”
The sister of the 18-year-old fatally trampled by a carabineros militarized police vehicle in front of the monumental stadium confirmed that the victim had bought her ticket, did not try to slip inside and that the armored car was the one who killed her.
“She was quiet, she was no problem. It was always a fan. She was going to the stadium to have fun. Now we only have to ask for justice, this tragedy can not be repeated!” said Bárbara Pérez.
According to the victim's brother's story, upon arrival at the clinic, “she was crushed. I will not give more details because it is very difficult for us!”. He said the armor driver “did not appear and gave no explanation”.
The young man questioned the preliminary version of the authorities, who blamed the victim's friends, two of whom were arrested and taken to testify.
“Carabineros accused them of provoking the accident, but they were just trying to enter the stadium like anyone else. They treated them as criminals.”
