The First Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office opened the investigation because last Saturday 15 posters stuck at the doors of the National Sports Villa appeared, with the text “when we kill an referee they will stop stealing us” and the name of the aforementioned club.
The Prosecutor’s Office ordered that the police station collect witnesses and see the security cameras in the area, which can be used to identify those who hit the posters.
For his part, the president of the National Arbitration Commission of the Liga 1 Tournament of Peru (CONAR), Winston Reátegui, criticized leaders and players of Alianza Lima for claiming with exasperation the referee of the party in which Alianza Lima fell to Cienciano, of the Surandina city of Cusco (1-0).
Reátegui asked the aliancist leaders to not repeat that attitude and that, in a similar situation, that they claim for existing channels or, if they think, ask for foreign referees avoiding situations that generate violence.
He also revealed that the judges have received death telephone threats because their telephone numbers have been published in the Internet networks.
“We sharply reject any act of violence. All action of this type is against our values, our history and our essence that our institution represents,” said the Alianza Lima Club hours before.
The referee, of the meeting in question, Bruno Pérez, expelled two key players from Alliance, Paolo Guerrero and Carlos Zambrano and charged a controversial penalty in favor of Cienciano with which this club won the victory.
In addition, he did not charge the same penalty to a foul against Guerrero in the area of Cienciano and that CONAR acknowledged that it was criminal, so he announced that he will sanction Pérez, although in football the score is final, even when it is the product of an error.
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