They came looking for a fight and it didn’t take long to find one. A crowd of ultras from the Atletico Front wreaked havoc last weekend at a karaoke bar on Alcala Street, near the Ventas bullring, hours later. … His team will play in the Metropolitano against Oviedo. Specifically, five, since the match ended at eleven at night and the group of approximately twenty people stormed the building at four in the morning.
By then, the party at Nabucco, a laid-back karaoke bar usually frequented by off-duty police officers, was about to explode. As ABC has learned, as the music the audience had chosen to be sung echoed through the room, the radicals, most of them clearly intoxicated, began chanting various neo-Nazi slogans. When they realized this, fear spread among those present, without gambling security being able to contain the arrogant people.
With such a panorama, the fuse of violence could not have taken long to unravel, in this case between a small group of ultras and a young Sevilla fan, who had to be treated by civil protection in Samur after receiving several punches in the face and head. Police sources confirm to this newspaper that the National Police came to the karaoke at 4:25 a.m., around the same time the beatings broke out. The Ciudad Lineal Police Station happened to be located just four blocks from the scene, so officers immediately prevented the fight from escalating after noticing “several angry people” getting into the fight.
The basic life support unit treated the only injured person, who suffered from bruises and visible blood on his scalp, without the need to transfer him to the hospital. In parallel, the extremist Colchoneros camp abandoned karaoke as none of its members were arrested. The same sources added, “Neither the shop owner nor the attacked customer filed a complaint.”
Previous incidents
Three years ago, another group from the Front Atlético had already carried out incidents in several bars around the Las Ventas bullring, at the end of the youth bullfight at the San Isidro Fair. On that occasion, fans attacked two waiters at two establishments and attempted to take a stuffed bull head from a third restaurant. The most serious event occurred shortly after the end of the day in the huge stadium (which featured chants in favor of Atletico and against Madrid fans), when dozens of ultras went to the first building with the intention of causing a commotion.
There, after receiving a reprimand from the hotel owners for their questionable attitude, they began throwing glasses and other objects. One of them hit a worker in the face, forcing Samor to be transferred with a conservative diagnosis to the Gregorio Marañon Hospital. As a result of these events, four of those involved were arrested in the vicinity of Fintas Bridge.