Barrabrava violence knows no borders and football-related deaths do not stop either. This Sunday morning, Brazil woke up to the shocking images that showed a bus catching fire in the middle of a highway in the interior of San Pablowhich as the hours passed it was confirmed that it transferred to Cruzeiro fans towards Belo Horizonte, who were ambushed and attacked by the Palmeiras gangwhich produced a 30-year-old man died due to charring and another twelve injured of varying severity. The videos that circulated through the networks shock.
According to the report of the Federal Highway Police (PRF, according to its Portuguese acronym) of Brazil, the episode occurred around 5:30 in the city of Maripora when two buses traveling with the Cruzeiro bus, called “Blue Mafia”were attacked with stones to make them stop. One of them was able to continue despite the broken glass, but the second stopped his march and provoked the next phase of the ambush organized by the members of the group. Green Spotas the Palmeiras bar is known.
The aggressors themselves recorded themselves while with irons, kicks and other forceful elements they punished the people who had not been able to escape the ambush on the highway, who were completely bloodied and unable to react.
Meanwhile, the bus was seen burning in flames and the Police themselves confirmed that a person had been left inside, who was charred to death. This is a Cruzeiro fan, 30 years old, and identified as Jose Victor Miranda. The rest of the victims were transferred to the Anjo Gabriel hospital in Maripora, although their state of health had not been revealed.
There would have been about 150 barrabravas who participated in the fight. The Palmeiras fans witnessed the 2-2 draw against Fortaleza, in the capital of São Paulo, while the Cruzeiro fans, according to the Police, returned from Curitiba, Paraná, where their team lost 3-0 against Athletico Paranaense, with an unusual expulsion by Rafael Silva three seconds into the game. The Belo Horizonte team will visit Buenos Aires on Wednesday to face Lanús, after the 1-1 draw in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana semifinals.
According to Brazilian media, the confrontation between Blue Mafia and the Green Spot It’s old. In fact, this Sunday’s ambush would be a response to the crash that occurred in September 2022, in Fernando Dias, in Carmópolis de Minas, 107 km from Belo Horizonte. At that moment, several Palmeiras fans were injured.