Police averts violent clashes between Betis and Sevilla ultras

The National Police seized an arsenal of blunt objects, including more than 50 large sticks, three iron bars, a hammer and several large rocks, from ultra groups of Real Betis and of Sevilla FC who met to fight before the final derby in Benito Villamarín, on the night of last Saturday, November 5, the eve of the game.

In that intervention, which was not known until this Monday, agents also seized from these radical fans three hockey sticks, a helmet, four ski masks, a flare, an anti-theft device and “a many large stones,” it reported in a statement.police.

Through this “swift action”, according to the police, a “tough fight” and a “serious planned confrontation” were avoided between two large groups of ultras from both clubs, who, after of intervention, fled and eventually ended up fighting in a brawl in which the Police had evidence that four were injured.

The statement explains that, on the occasion of this last derby, the National Police activated a preventive security device to control the places frequented by Sevillian ultra groups and that, the night before the game, they observed how a large group of people started. to gather in a place near the stadium of Legs carrying blunt objects.

When police units went to the area, these radical fans immediately left the area, “leaving the blunt objects they were carrying,” although the agents, according to the Police, managed to identify and control more than half of them. people gathered.

After this police action there was a “violent confrontation” between the ultras of the same entertainment, although the consequences were “minor” due to the previous seizure of material intervened in the preventive security device developed by the Provincial Information Brigade and the quick response from the Prevention and Reaction Unit of the Provincial Citizen Security Brigade, the note added.