The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office has initiated criminal investigation proceedings to clarify the events that occurred on September 29 during the soccer match between the Atlético de Madrid and the real Madrid in the stadium Metropolitan after several launches of objects, most of them lighters, to the Real Madrid goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois.
As a first measure, the Prosecutor’s Office has required the Provincial Information Brigade to prepare an report on the events that occurred during the derby.
Likewise, it requests that you carry out an analysis of the images where the people who could appear throw objects onto the playing field to identify them. We are awaiting these reports.
The match at the Metropolitano had to be stopped for 20 minutes after referee Busquets Ferrer ordered both teams that they went to the locker room in the 67th minute and after, According to their minutes, it was the third time that objects were thrown from the lower south end into the Real Madrid goalkeeper’s area and after having previously activated the pertinent protocol.
“Atlético de Madrid wants to show its rejection of the launch of objects that occurred from a part of the south end of the stands in the 68th minute of the match against Real Madrid,” the red and white team said in a statement.
The mattress club highlighted that “from the moment in which said launches occurred”, Its Security department began to work together with the Police “to locate those involved, one of whom has already been identified.”
