Posted April 7, 2011
For Alejandro Wall
STUDY. One of every four deaths occurred in the courts involving the police. Repression is the second leading cause of loss of life, after clashes between fans, according to the NGO Save the Cup.
A of every four victims of violence in football was hand over policing. Who must ensure security during the games become, in that way, in charge of the second cause of death in the courts. The first, of course, is the most logical: the confrontation between rival fans. This is evidenced by the recent report of the Research Department of the NGO Save the football, which also stresses that those who suffer most are police abuse visiting fans.
The work is titled "The operations of (in) security at soccer stadiums" . Santiago is signed by Uliana, Diego Sebastián Murzi and shock, the three sociologists working in the state and for three years are dedicated to collect and study statistics on violence in the courts, and helping to reflect on the problem from different approaches. In this case, put the magnifying glass over the police role. The death of Ramón Aramayo on Sunday 20 March in entering the match between Velez and San Lorenzo had to Federal in the center of the scene. That fact, three soldiers of the Commissioner 44 of Liniers were passed to availability while investigating preventive responsibilities.
Aramayo's death triggered a deeper study on the involvement of security forces in acts of this kind: "There Stage daily in countless violent situations that are not perceived as a problem in both the blood does not reach the River. These violent actions are those situations involving the police, whose actions is a fundamental part of a gear named violent articles from security operations (italics belong to the report). " One example is the complaint of police repression in Quilmes-Independiente, also the sixth time.
According to statistics there were 256 NGOs handles fatalities in Argentine football since 1924 until this year, including 71 deaths from Gate 12. But although the researcher Amilcar Romero, author of Death on the court, considered the product of political repression, for this work by sociologists of the excluded. So taking a total of 185 deaths , shows that 40% are motivated in clashes between fans. Secondly, it appears the actions of the police with 23% . We follow the clash between the bar itself, ie internal fights, with 19%, and involvement of a third group of a team that did not play that game, with 18%.
The document, moreover, quoted research The fans in uniform, anthropologists and Mariana Javier Palma Galvani, a text published in the book Swollen Alabarces-Paul, explaining that the police, in the eyes of fans, is considered a more swollen in the stadium. "A 'third puffy' against whom also fought a battle, always symbolic, and often physical," they explain. They add: "Palma Galvani and understand that the perception of swells' common 'that attends the stadium, the police and the barra brava,' are the same but with a different uniform" because they recognize in both groups a taste for violence physics ".
addition, the work of Save the Football makes clear that the fans know something well: police is much more violent in their actions with the visiting fans . The statistics show: 70% of deaths at the hands of soldiers in that condition occurs. That is, die four visitors for every one that is murdered in his own court. "These data suggest that there would be some complicity between the local fans, usually a majority, and the police. That is, the bar and called police collusion is a result of their belonging to the same territory, where code-sharing and negotiations are key to understanding the overwhelming number of dead by police repression visiting fans ", says the report.
As for the ages, Uliana, Murzi and substantially recognize two distinct periods. During the forties, the police acted, in the words of Amilcar Romero, in a role of "dual membership" for the local audience. In the eighties, the deaths are related as a remnant of the military dictatorship. "It was difficult to identify for the supporters, both in the field of collective imagination and in particular, expressed in the repression, the police as an enemy that fight," they say. Then, over the years, explaining that the bars are professionalized and began to take up responsible for relations with stations.
"And again, the police understood the bars as key players in the show, and is negotiating with many fans of the operational issues" , add sociologists.
As a conclusion, the Save the Football sociologists explain that the aim is rather to question the police forces involved in the design and implementation of so-called security operations. " He explains: "Far from trying to find the police the only actor responsible for the violent events in Argentine football, our intention is to expose a problem complex has different edges, one of which can be identified as the police matter. "
For a possible solution to the problem also suggested finding ways not repressive, as the implementation of" lungs of coexistence "in the stadiums, where they can share the same space of the gallery fans of both teams, which, they believe, produce cultural change. Meanwhile
are emphatic on one thing: "The model of having almost a spectator police do not give more."
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