Following the now resolved doubts over the Tigre vs. Independiente match (see previous story), it also became apparent on Friday evening that River Plate’s home game against Newell’s – which was going to be Los Millonarios‘ first of the campaign – may now also be put back to a later date, for very different reasons.
Following the attack on, and subsequent death of, Gonzalo Acro on Tuesday night, it’s unknown exactly how heated the situation will be in the stands at the Monumental. Los Borrachos del Tablón already have a bad relationship with Newell’s barra, La Hinchada Que Nunca Abandona, since the death of two River fans on the main motorway to Rosario a couple of years ago. The shooting of Acro is, of course, a totally unprecedented action and as such it’s impossible for the police to predict what might occur at the match.
Friday saw some members of Los Borrachos attack the journalists who’d been sent to cover the arrival of the car carrying Acro’s body at the cemetery in Chacarita. No uniformed police were present because it was thought – probably correctly - that their presence would simply act as a further provocation. The scenes were accompanied across the city by the announcement that a judge, José María Campagnoli, had requested a legal investigation to establish whether the brothers Alan and William Schklenker had played any part in the crime.
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