BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The death of Ramon Aramayo exposed, again, the unrelenting violence that scars Argentine soccer.
The San Lorenzo fan and father of two made the mistake of objecting to a security check last month as he approached the stadium of opposing Buenos Aires club Velez Sarsfield. Exactly what he said or did isn’t known, but the confrontation lasted only seconds before several police wrestled him to the asphalt, face-down.
“Aramayo resisted being frisked, and witnesses told me what followed was a brutal beating by police,” said Gustavo Grabia, a journalist and expert on Argentine hooliganism. “They used excessive force. He was taken down to the ground. They hit him in the back, in the legs, they squeezed his testicles. Not everything is clear. He was able to get up and walk, but passed out.”
“Basically, they pulled him out of the line and pummeled him,” Grabia added in an interview with The Associated Press.
Aramayo was pronounced dead minutes later, and three officers were suspended the next day. Aramayo’s autopsy showed bruising from police blows, but it said he probably died of heart failure — or traumatic shock — brought on by the assault.
His was the country’s 13th soccer-related death in
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