one hundred and twenty-five people died in panic movements in a stadium in Malang, possibly caused by the excessive use of tear gas towards the stands of spectators.
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The violence of supporters, chaos and tear gas shots formed a deadly cocktail, in the evening of Saturday 1 er October, in a stadium in the city of Malang, in the province de Java is, in Indonesia, after a match in the national football championship. One hundred and twenty-five people died and 188 others were injured, according to the authorities, by suffocation, compression or trauma, in the Kanjuruhan stadium. The disproportionate appeal by the rudeness police in tear gas shots is pointed out.
The stadium was full: 42,000 tickets had been sold, while, according to the minister responsible for coordinating security issues, Mohammad Mahfud Mahmodin, the capacity had been limited to 38,000 people. The minister called on Monday October 3, in a television statement, Indonesian police to “identify” those who in their ranks “have perpetrated the crimes”: “We ask the national police to find the perpetrators of the crimes in the coming days” , he said.
This is the defeat of the local club Arema FC, at (2-3), against the Persebaya Surabaya club, which first sparked the anger of its supporters. The two clubs have a long tradition of rivalry. The “rabid lions”, as are nicknamed the players of the Arema FC, had never lost in their own stadium in twenty-three years. The team, which had won the Indonesia championship in 2010, finished the 2021-2022 season in fourth place.
At the end of the match, supporters of the Malang team invaded the stadium and obviously tried to attack their players and officials, who took refuge in the locker room. Videos then showdown police officers with shields and sticks, as well as men in military lattice, repel and violently club the supporters who were running on the lawn. At least two police vehicles have also been returned by the field. 2>
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Salves of tear gas shots were then heard, first towards the attackers, then the stands. No confrontation took place between the supporters of the two camps – those of the Surabaya team had in principle had the right to buy tickets for this match, a rule adopted to avoid fights between rival supporters, cries, most of the time, of “Sampai Mati!” (“Until death!”).
Panic that resulted from intensive and indiscriminate tear gas shots – witnesses explained that they had targeted the stands, when nothing was going on – caused huge crowd movements to the Outings, where dozens of spectators, including women and children, have been trampled on, crushed, or suffocated in the absence of oxygen. “Each corner of the stadium was filled with tear gas. The spectators started to panic, it became even more chaotic. They ran out, but it was blocked,” said Rezqi Wahyu, a fan of the Arema FC present In the stadium, at the Jakarta Post.
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