Barça ultras attack Osasuna fans in Pamplona

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ultra fans of Barcelona staged this afternoon in Pamplona violent incidents, hours before the game that the Barça team and Osasuna will play in El Sadar, in which there were several injuries. the aggressors they carried sticks and they launched a flare that has forced the firefighters to intervene, in addition to several agents of the Municipal Police and the National Police and ambulances.

Sources from the Municipal Police told EFE that in a bar frequented by Osasuna supporters there was an attack in which three people were injured and they had to be transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra. The events took place in a bar, the Ezpala Tavern, located on San Juan Bosco street, in the Iturrama neighborhood, which suffered significant damage. For now, no arrests have been recorded.

According to some witnesses, a group of radicals from Barcelona arrived at the bar carrying baseball bats and other utensils with which they broke the windows of the premises and destroyed part of the interior furniture. A group of violent people attacked the clients who were in the bar, even throwing flares. Among the injured, one had a possible broken arm and another suffered a broken nose and had to be treated at a hospital.

Club Atlético Osasuna, shortly after, published a statement in which it condemns “the violent incidents carried out by ultras of the Barcelona Football Club this afternoon in Pamplona”, expressing its solidarity with those affected and making itself available to the people attacked. . The club confirms its total opposition to any sign of violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport and expresses his wish that the game proceeds with absolute normality.

The game was not considered high risk, since there had been no incidents between fans of both teams, so a special device had been organized. However, due to the recent visit of Valladolid there were also clashes between radicals of both teams.

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Barça also issued a note in which it “regrets and condemns the acts of vandalism carried out this afternoon by ultra fans in the city of Pamplona.” The Barça club “flatly rejects any act of violence inside and outside football stadiums and reaffirms its commitment to the fight against any form of violence associated with the world of sport.”

Barcelona president Joan Laporta contacted his Osasuna counterpart, Luis Sabalza, to share his rejection of what happened among radical fans and underlined the entity’s will “to put an end to the groups” that practice violence “systematically” .



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