The violence in a Liga MX match is due to the infiltration of ‘organized crime’ and ‘drug dealing’ in the bars, say Mexican newspapers

An outbreak of violence in a soccer game played in Mexico by the Querétaro and Atlas clubs, last Saturday night, at the La Corregidora World Cup stadium, for the ninth day of the Clausura 2022 tournament, has left 26 people injured so far and No deaths, said the governor of the central state of Querétaro, Mauricio Kuri, on Tuesday.

Civil Protection of Querétaro originally said that there were 22 people injured by the brawl, which occurred at minute 63 of the commitment, when a confrontation with blows between the followers of both teams began in the stands. Given the inability to resolve the facts, the few security elements of the stadium opened the access to the field so that people could get to safety with the game underway, so dozens of people flooded the field. Images spread on social networks showed several bloodied people lying on the ground.

Because of the invasion, the match was immediately stopped. The soccer players went to the locker room area and the field began to fill with people; some people, including families with children, were seeking safety while others took the violence onto the playing field with more exchanges of blows.

insufficient security

Governor Kuri said that security at the La Corregidora stadium was a “private responsibility,” so he will meet with the leader of the Mexican soccer league, Mikel Arriola, and with the president of the Querétaro club. Kuri acknowledged that the public force was also insufficient and “did not act with the promptness that was deserved.”

However, the violence that has Mexican soccer horrified is not seen as a gang fight that has spiraled out of control. For several Mexican media, specialized in sports, organized crime is involved in the brawl. In December 2006, the federal government launched a controversial military anti-drug offensive that has not yielded results.

Bars and ‘narcomenudeo’

The newspaper THIS titled this Tuesday ‘Narcomenudeo in the bars of Mexican soccer? Barrista explains how they operate ‘to a note in which he warns about football clubs infiltrated by drug traffickers.

“Bone, a member of Atlético Morelia’s Locura 81 gang, did not rule out the possibility that organized crime is involved in some Mexican soccer animation groups ‘due to drug dealing.’ The fan, who did not give his name to avoid reprisals, pointed out that among the groups that are more numerous it is ‘easy’ for criminals to join “, is mentioned in THIS.

Bone said that in the bars “almost all the kids are between 20 and 25 years old; I, for example, entered when I was 15 and now I am 31 years old, but generally among those who are very young it is difficult for them to have well-founded ideas. What do you want and what do you not want; besides, the members of organized crime no longer ask you (to be a distributor or consumer) they simply force you”.

The orginazed crime

The newspaper Millenniumin your section the hobby, was more direct in its headline: ‘Organized crime, behind the violence of Querétaro vs. Atlas’. The newspaper asks this Tuesday that “why was the barbarism unleashed in La Corregidora? There are few who really believe that this was a mere clash of bars. There are too many elements that point to another explanation.”

It is added that “the explanation will never be official, but it makes us understand what happened: this was the work of organized crime.”

and details the Hobby that the previous hypothesis is inferred by “the modus operandi (of the aggressors) of leaving the victims without clothes or identification, the cruelty of the attacks, the high number that entered than is customary in the Querétaro bar, the background of the leaders . Even the security company that the state government recently canceled assures me that it was in collusion with the group that organized the attack. It is enough to see how the protection elements opened the way for them.” (D)