In the return of rock band Viejas Locas at Velez Sarsfield Stadium, there were incidents outside the venue, leaving about 30 people wounded who were rushed to hospitals, Velez Sarfield and Tornú, while 40 others were arrested.
According to witnesses, there were riots and police used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
The Federal Police charged over the people who were waiting to enter the stadium, on Juan B. Justo Avenue, and used a water cannon truck with blue water jets making no distintion betweenthose who had legally purchased tickets and those who had obtained their tickets illegally or had no tickets at all.
Riots commenced when a group of youths tried to enter the stadium without tickets.
Unfortunately, many fans of the band could not watch the show as they left when the unrest began.
Correction: Why the velez crowd hopped of the bus on juan b justo avenue knowing there was a gig and knowing in what mood they would be? couldnt that have been avoided? organization just sucked BIG TIME. I just felt there would be another cromagnon or something!
I was there and the guys without tickets, was the former prob, yes, but I was there and everything got quiet again and I was about to get in, but then the Velez’ hooligans got back from a match against Banfield, which they lost 3-0, which doesnt happen often and may cost them the championship and they were really mad and began saying “this is our stadium” and wanted to get in and then the police used the tear gas again in the area right before the entrance to the court, but past the entrance to the stadium, and the fans just had to climb a fence and get into a place full of buildings and we started running cause of the gas, and then we heard bullets so i just stayed a few blocks from there till it got quiet, but a few friends tried once again and they said the bullets felt so near them it was awfully scary. Besides, there was ONE ENTRANCE ONLY FOR OVER 40,000 PEOPLE. It was mad. I think the police needs this kind of thing to happen so they can proove they are working. Why the velez crowd hopped off the crowd on Juan B. Justo knowing they were so horribly defeated and mad about it? Why not in some other street, a bit far from the gig? And they started to mark people with the inked water, which in slang we call “smurfing” cause it leaves you all light blue like a smurf. It was horrid, there was no need to do that, the fans werent SUCH a problem, most of them were really calm at the stadium entrance, they could’ve stopped the fireworks a few blocks from the stadium, or taken out the ticketless or the problematic ones, but they just started out a riot. I went as press, and I couldnt even get in.