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The concept of security around the Monumental Estadio has failed. © Getty Images / Demián Alday
The chaos surrounding the cancellation of the Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and the Boca Juniors is a source of consternation both inside and outside of Argentina. The context of the Boca bus attack could be more complex than expected.
The club that will represent the South American CONMEBOL Association at the World Club Cup in mid-December in the United Arab Emirates is still unknown after the cancellation of the Copa Libertadores final this weekend after several changes.
In fact, the return match should have been held Saturday at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires. Because some River Plate rioters had attacked the Bival Juniors bus with stones on their way to the arena and tear gas had entered the vehicle, the badociation first moved the match on Sunday.
The Boca players, Pablo Pérez and Gonzalo Lamardo, had to be hospitalized after the attack. On Sunday afternoon, they finally decided to cancel the final at the moment "in order to maintain a sporting balance," said CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez.
River Ultras attacked the Boca bus
Since then, Argentina is not alone in questioning about the possibility of escalation of this magnitude. Obvious, it is the failure of the police. Instead of locking the road to the stadium, the Boca bus was escorted by roads lined with river trailers. "Without a doubt, there has been an error in the arrival of the Boca bus," acknowledged Marcelo D'Alessandro, security secretary of the city of Buenos Aires. "There have been arrests and there is an investigation into why this ring failed."
In addition, D & # 39; Alessandro reported that the allegedly organized attack had links to the River Plate Ultra scene. The mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, for whom the riots are a reprisal of "Barras" – as we call the Ultras in Argentina – for house searches in the perspective of the final, also goes in the same direction.
Friday were at the addresses of two ultra-converted chiefs about 200,000 euros in cash and apparently for sale on the black market some tickets were found. "We are going to get to the bottom of this ultra-mafia," said Rodríguez Larreta.
When and how is the final of Libertadores?
When and in what form the final of the Copa Libertadores is now over, is open. The week will be targeted from December 3rd to 9th, with a possible date circulating in Argentina on Saturday, December 8th.
The framework conditions in which the "super final" between the two rivals will take place are also obscure. A neutral venue located outside Buenos Aires or even in another country – Uruguay, Paraguay or Chile, for example – with spectators or audience, is just as present in the room as a renewed attempt in the monumental.
The current solution is only the damage that has resulted in the reputation of Argentina to the world public through the chaos of the final Libertadores. A potential football festival, destroyed by some violent idiots. Or, as Mayor Rodríguez Larreta said: "There is something you can not fight: human stupidity."
David Mayr
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