The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has criticized “the denigrating behavior for the intimate feeling of support to one or another club that before the Cup final we are seeing by sectors of young people mainly in the streets of Bilbao and Donostia”.
Thousands of young people have concentrated this afternoon in Pozas, as the bar area of Bilbao street Licenciado Poza is known, waiting for the final between Athletic and Real to begin, where there have been incidents, police charges and a young woman taken to the hospital for a bottle. In San Sebastián there have also been crowds in the Old Town, but without incidents.
In a comment on a social network, the Lehendakari assures that “thinking about the suffering suffered as a result of the pandemic, neither as a sports fan, nor as a Basque citizen, words come to me in the face of signs of incivility, lack of solidarity, irresponsibility to which we already came and are attending “.
Urkullu is “hurt, too, by the lack of honest feeling towards the lyrics of the Athletic Club and Real Sociedad anthems by all the people who, attacking public health and against whom, like the Ertzaintza, only intend to maintain a order in the fulfillment of the measures for common benefit, they despise the greatness that should be exposed as a differential fact.
Whatever the outcome of the football match – which he wants to be a football match between two Basque club teams and for the best to win – “there is much to reflect on”, he concluded.
Aburto’s complaint
The mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, has asked “a bit of sanity” to the “madmen” who are mounting incidents before the final.
Thousands of young people have concentrated this afternoon in Pozas, as the bar area of Bilbao street Licenciado Poza is known, waiting for the final between Athletic and Real to begin, where there have been incidents, police charges and a young woman taken to the hospital for a bottle.
About these incidents Aburto has commented on twitter: “Some madmen mounting incidents before the final. And the families that today suffer from Covid or not being able to enjoy this historic day?”
“You do not represent the values of our Athletic or of our city. Please, a bit of sanity and let us enjoy yourself in peace,” the mayor asked.
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