An ultra leader of the football club Central Rosary and another member of the gang, identified as his right-hand man, were shot to death in the surroundings of the Gigante de Arroyito stadium during an Argentine soccer league match, in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, official sources reported.
The victims were identified as Andrés ‘Pillín’ Bracamonte53 years old and head of the brava (ultra) bar of Rosario Central for 30 years, and Daniel ‘Rana’ Atardo55 and designated as his right hand man.
Bracamonte and Atardo were traveling in a white van when “they were intercepted by at least two people who were traveling on foot and fired multiple gunshots at them, seriously wounding them and then fled,” indicates a report from the Rosario prosecutor’s office.
The attack occurred a few blocks from the ‘Canalla’ stadium, where San Lorenzo defeated Rosario Central 0-1 and because it was a match without visiting fans, prosecutors are investigating a possible “internal settling of scores” between ultras from different factions within the same club.
The injured were assisted by witnesses and taken to the Centenario Hospital in the city of Rosario, where the death of both was confirmed.
They fear that crime could unleash a wave of violence within rival bars and gangs who handle drug trafficking in Rosario. “The heads of the brave gangs are heads of neighborhood narcopolice gangs. The murder of ‘Pillín’ is the murder of one of the leaders of the main narco gangs from 2011 onwards,” said the provincial deputy of the Social and Popular Front of Santa Fe, Carlos Del Frade, in statements to Radio 10.
Del Frade, in addition to being a legislator, is a journalist and investigated the links between Rosario drug trafficking and soccer in the 1990s, and assures that “a revenge will begin” following the homicide of Brancamonte.
“Pillín was a unique case, almost in Latin America, because He was the only head of the barra brava of a First Division club for 30 years and the man who could dialogue with certain sectors of the Government, but yesterday’s murder breaks what for us was a parenthesis in the homicides in Rosario,” said Del Frade.
The city of Rosario has been plagued for decades by the drug trafficking business and clashes between gangs for control of the territory. According to sources from the Ministry of Security of Santa Fe, last year, the number of violent murders – mostly linked to drug trafficking – amounted to 261 victims, while two months before the end of 2024 it stands at 81.
A considerable drop, in part, due to the intervention of the national government through a crisis committee, led by the Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichand the implementation of the “Flag Plan” that uses federal forces to strengthen security in Rosario.
However, for Del Frede, Bullrich’s policies leave “the feeling that they are deliberately allowing drugs to be sold in exchange for not killing someone,” he concluded.
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