MEXICO CITY — A soccer recreation in central Mexico descended into violent clashes between followers of the opposing groups on Saturday. The authorities stated 22 folks had been injured, two of them critically.
The match, in a stadium within the metropolis of Querétaro, was known as off after simply over an hour of play as followers started attacking each other, upsetting panic amongst different spectators, lots of whom ran onto the sector, in keeping with information stories and movies from the scene.
Shocking footage posted on social media confirmed teams of males dragging folks throughout the concrete outdoors the stadium, kicking and beating them and ripping off their garments. Another video confirmed a topless man being crushed and whipped.
“I strongly condemn today’s violence at the Corregidora Stadium,” Mauricio Kuri, the governor of Querétaro State, stated on Twitter. “I have given instructions to apply the law with all its consequences. In Querétaro there is no impunity.”
Atlas, the defending champion of Liga MX, the Mexican soccer league, had been main Querétaro’s group 1-0 when the preventing broke out within the stands. The violence quickly unfold onto the sector and into the world across the stadium, in keeping with movies shared on-line.
Liga MX stated in an announcement that it had begun “an in-depth investigation into what happened in the stands, on the pitch and outside the building during the match.”
In October 2019, a match between Querétaro and Atlético de San Luis was suspended after violence amongst spectators left a number of injured. In 2015, followers of Atlas invaded the pitch throughout a match towards Chivas. The subsequent clashes noticed 10 folks arrested and not less than 9 injured, information retailers reported.