One sentenced over assault on police, teenager released and three fans detained after derby unrest
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- A Uruguayan court sentenced a 37-year-old man to seven months in prison, converted to supervised release, for aggravated assault against police during the Peñarol-Nacional derby.
- A 17-year-old involved in the disturbances was handed over to a responsible adult, while three other people remain detained.
- Authorities are seeking to bar those involved from sporting events, and four police officers suffered minor injuries during the operation.
A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to seven months in prison after disturbances at the Campeón del Siglo stadium during Sunday’s Peñarol-Nacional derby. The sentence will instead be served under a supervised-release regime.
The Criminal Court of First Instance’s 41st Turn convicted him as the legally responsible perpetrator of aggravated assault against police authority. The court ordered him to live at an address where Uruguay’s National Directorate of Alternative Measures can supervise him, report once a week to a police station and perform two hours of community service each week.
He cannot attend football stadiums during the sentence. When Peñarol plays, he must report to the police station serving his home area for the duration of the match. The Interior Ministry said it had begun procedures with the Uruguayan Football Association to place those involved on the register of people barred from sporting events.
Some flags that they tried to bring in were initially stopped by different deployments, but they did get them in at the end.
A 17-year-old who took part in the disturbances was released into the care of a responsible adult. Three other people remain detained. The operation initially produced five arrests over attacks on police, while four officers suffered minor injuries, including two from the Republican Guard and two from the Montevideo Police Headquarters. Officers used non-lethal ammunition and tear gas in response to the attacks.
The ministry also said police identified people linked to a room at the stadium that officers had been unable to inspect because they did not know it existed. Montevideo Police Chief Alfredo Clavijo said a constructed and plastered wall had prevented visual access, and Scientific Police were examining the area. Nacional won the derby 1-0.
We did not have visual access because it was a constructed and plastered wall, but Scientific Police are examining everything.
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Originally published by El País in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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