The boulevard it has been dyed red-green to celebrate a historic milestone. After the celebrated victory in the quarterfinals against Spain, the selection of Morocco has returned to write another chapter to remember in the Qatar World Cup by becoming the first African country to reach the semifinals of the biggest event in international football after defeating Portugal 1-0.
and the numerous Moroccan community and many of the neighbors with whom they live in the different neighborhoods of Barcelona and its metropolitan area They have come out en masse to celebrate it, counting some 2,400 fans of the Moroccan soccer team, according to data provided by the Urban Police.
Canaletes and Plaza Catalunyathe nerve center of FC Barcelona’s celebrations, has once again become the biggest meeting point to celebrate a triumph that crowns their team as the great revelation of the tournament.
Morocco’s victory has been seen in Barcelona as a triumph of multiculturalism and this is how the main avenues of the city have perceived it, especially in a Rambla even more full than last Tuesday with the victory of the Moroccan team against Spain.
Peaceful celebration in Barcelona
Hoisting the flags of Morocco and various others such as Algeria, Catalonia, Palestine or Spain, many young people, but also entire familieshave moved from different parts of the Catalan capital and peripheral cities such as Santa Coloma, L’Hospitalet -places where the large Moroccan community has also come out to celebrate the victory through its streets- to Canaletes to join the party, where Since the initial whistle, there has been a riot of songs and fireworks, with the use of rockets, flares and colored smoke canisters.
This celebration has caused traffic disruptionsas confirmed by municipal sources, since the traffic of vehicles has been completely cut off at the height of Plaza Cataluña, the Portal de la Pau and the Drassanes.
According to these same sources, the celebrations have been peaceful and there have been no remarkable incidents in none of the points where more fans have concentrated.
A very seriously injured in Milan
A 30-year-old man is in very serious condition having received this afternoon a stab in the neck during the celebrations in Milan of the pass of the Moroccan national team to the semifinal of the World Cup in Qatar.
According to the first investigations by the Police and the Carabineri collected by ‘L’Stampa’, the victim was attacked on the Corso Buenos Aires promenade while trying to quell an argument between two other men and their aggressor would have been identified as an “Eastern European man” who has gone on the run.
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The injured man, after being stabilized on the spot by the Emergency services, was quickly transferred to the Milan Polyclinic, where his condition deteriorated rapidly after internal bleeding was detected, according to medical sources.
For its part, the Belgian police carried out a dozen administrative arrests this Saturday in Brussels as a result of the riots that broke out after Morocco’s victory over Portugal. A few dozen hooded youths fired projectiles at police officers, who responded with tear gas, according to what police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere explained to the newspaper “Le Soir”, who confirmed, however, that “there was no significant damage”.