This was the shooting that took place outside the club

The election in the Racing club gave good news for record of participation, with more than 16 thousand votes from members to define the authorities between Diego Milito and Christian Devia. But on Sunday afternoon the scene turned towards violenceso common in football.

In front of the stadium headquarters there were runs and they went viral a couple of videos that recorded the explosions from a shooting that occurred on Alsina and Colón streets, in Avellanedaaround Cylinder. Factional clashes were also seen stones.

Witnesses, some who live in the area and others who came to the club to participate in the elections, spoke of “minimum ten shots” and clashes between groups that exceeded “50 u 80 members“.

“I don’t know who they are. Those who were in the Milito bunker left there, to the side of the center of Avellaneda,” said a man who showed the TN signal a video he captured with his own phone cell phone.

Another witness, a young woman with a blue and light blue T-shirt from the Avellaneda team, said that about the Corbatta Passage “there were those at the bar with the bass drums quiet and when they started to leave you could already hear the shots.

Then, she reported that neither she nor other fans who were in the area were allowed enter the club to protect yourself and it was one of them who, By his means, he managed to open a gate.

“They didn’t want to let us enter the club and one who was with us climbed up and opened a gate. They were closing blinds in the shops,” he said while clarifying that “until the voting closed everything was perfect.”

Another woman, a resident of the area with her son, said that on the block of Colón and Mendoza “they were all at gunpoint”.

“They threw stones, shotshere it was. We live here. It was here in the middle of the block,” he exclaimed to the TN signal, while gesturing with his arms towards where some of those who carried out the incident were running.

“Some ran awayplow the side of the monoblocksothers for the side of the Avellaneda station“she said while, in the background, another woman shouted that one of the parties involved was “Corina’s bar”.

The woman with her son pointed out that the scene she witnessed was about “a bar against another bar and in the middle, the police”.

When asked if they saw injured people, both testimonies were negative. “No, we didn’t even see blood stains on the street,” said the woman, who added that there were “50, 80 or more people. And one of the sides was The Imperial Guard“he asserted.

Neighbors in the area also said that around 7 p.m., an hour after the voting closed, the situation was already calm.

Diego Milito became the new president of Racing this Sunday, after defeating Christian Devia in the elections, who was accompanied in the formula by the current academic president, Víctor Blanco.

In historic elections, in which nearly 16 thousand members voted, the last idol He prevailed over the leader under whose management the club returned to national and international titles.

“With an exemplary act that produced the historical participation record of members (more than 16,000, almost 45% of the qualified register), the presidential renewal vote in Racing was closed. When those who are still in the Sports Center waiting for their turn finish voting, the scrutiny will begin,” the club’s X account published.

“It’s a dream come true. I’m in a place I dreamed of and where the people put me and that for me is a commitment and an enormous responsibility,” said the former forward of Zaragoza and Inter Milan, among others, when giving his first statements as the winner of the elections in the Avellaneda institution.