The commissioner of the Mossos d'Esquadra and responsible for the Metropolitan Police Region Sud, Eduard Sallent, explained that the outrage “of 14 people” in the immediate vicinity of the RCDE Stadium Before the derby, and has described as “fortuitous or accidental”, it has been carried out by a driver who has given negative in drugs and alcohol. The incident, which occurred “at the number 100 of Llobregat Avenue”, at 9:02 p.m. has marked the beginning of LaLiga's meeting between Espanyol and Barcelona.
“A person who was driving a vehicle on an open road has been surrounded by fans who headed to the stadium and, for some reason that we are not still clear, he has accelerated to leave the site,” he said. The police command added that the vehicle “is not that it was at an excessive speed”, but that the car “has been stopped, has tried to leave and, in the output maneuver, has hit the people in front.”
“We must determine why this maneuver has done,” said Sallent, who has been questioned about whether the fact that the road has occurred was open has been a security error. “What surely is not a security error is what the driver has done.” We are clear that when there are agglomerations of people we can meet assumptions of this type, “he replied.” It is not the first or the last case. They are situations that occur on other occasions and what is not given is for the driver to tighten the accelerator, “he added.
Sallent has commented that this person “felt harassed” by the situation and, in the “flight”, has caused the accident. This person has been arrested and has given negative both in alcohol and drugs, and the case is in the hands of the Cornellà de Llobregat research unit. The commissioner has advanced that, as a statement is taken, you can have “more precise information of what has happened and why the vehicle has accelerated.”
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Sallent has shown words of “support to families and people injured” that although they have been, he pointed out, “mild” they have taken “a good scare.” The commissioner thanked Espanyol and the Local Police Coordination in the management of the incident. Finally, the police command has commented that there was no “affectation to the security of the event” and has affirmed that, therefore, “the party could be carried out.”
