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Buenos Aires (EFE).- The Argentine Justice ordered the release of 104 Universidad de Chile fans who had been arrested in the violent incidents of last Wednesday during the match with Independiente, of Avellaneda, for the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana, judicial sources reported this Friday.
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The order to release the detainees was issued late Thursday by the Fiscal Instruction and Trial Unit 4, of the Buenos Aires town of Avallaneda. The serious incidents on Wednesday began towards the end of the first half of the match, with the score tied at one and a 2-1 aggregate in favor of the Chileans, when fans of the visiting team located in one of the highest stands of the Independiente stadium began to throw seats and pieces of the stands extracted from the structure towards the lower part, where fans of the 'Rojo' were. Independiente fans tried to approach the visiting sector, which forced the reinforcement of security with police infantry personnel, in parallel with the evacuation of the Chilean fans. Despite efforts to contain the violence, a large group of local fans managed to access the stand where a handful of Chilean fans still remained, who were violently attacked.
The incidents left a balance of about twenty injured -one of them in intensive care- and more than a hundred detainees, the vast majority of them belonging to the visiting fans.
Due to the serious incidents, Chile's Interior Minister, Álvaro Elizalde, traveled this Thursday to Buenos Aires to meet with the Argentine Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, who promised him that Argentina would work "with all promptness and with all responsibility so that there is truly due process and justice."
"Those who have not committed any crime will be able to go home peacefully, those who have committed crimes will pay for them. As we always say: whoever does it, pays for it, regardless of the club they belong to, regardless of their nationality," Bullrich pointed out during a joint conference with Elizalde at the headquarters of the Ministry of Security in Buenos Aires.
