Several players and other members of the expedition of the Peruvian soccer team have faced on Tuesday some agents of the National Police who gave security to the reception organized by Peruvian fans at the doors of the NH Collection Eurobuilding hotel, an incident that has resulted in a detainee.
The Peruvian team arrived at the hotel after the afternoon training session held at the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas.
As reported by police sources and corroborate the images recorded by witnesses, some of the players of the Peruvian team, which plays a friendly match in the Spanish capital against Morocco on Tuesday, exceeded the security perimeter marked by the National Police to greet fans at the doors of the hotel where they are staying.
At that moment, the agents of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), better known as riot police, told them that they should go back to the door of the hotel, which unleashed the pushes and slaps between police, members of the Peruvian expedition and fans.
In the videos disseminated through social networks it is observed that Pedro Gallese, Álex Varela and Yoshimar Yotún were some of the players involved in the altercations, which were finally neutralized by the Police.
Sources of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) consulted by EFE catalog the incident as "confusing" and indicate that through the videos disseminated "they are trying to clarify the situation" and "resolve what happened
Peru will face Morocco on Tuesday in a friendly match to be held from 21:30 p.m. at the Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano.
On Monday, the Municipal Police of Madrid arrested an employee of the Eurostars Madrid Tower hotel, where the Moroccan team is staying, accused of publishing racist comments against the North African expedition on his Instagram profile.
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