The president of the Sport Youth Cheerleader, João Victor Soares, is still hospitalized in a hospital in Pernambuco. Last Saturday (1st), fights between fans of Santa Cruz and Sport were recorded in various parts of Recife before the match between the rival teams for the Pernambuco Championship.
Initially, he received care at the Restoration Hospital, but was transferred. Its state of health and new location are not being available for security, according to the Civil Police.
According to the Military Police, Soares remains in custody and with the pre -trial detention decreed, to be complied with as soon as he is discharged. The case is investigated by the Police Station for Sports Intolerance, linked to the Civil Police.
“For security reasons, we cannot inform the hospital unit in which it is. We reinforce, however, that the hospitalized man is in custody of the PMPE and with the pre -trial detention decreed, to be enforced as soon as he has discharge,” he said, ” Secretariat of Social Defense of Pernambuco to the report.
The Restoration Hospital reported that the last patient who was hospitalized because of Saturday’s fights was discharged on Tuesday (4) and gave no details about what happened to the president of Sport’s Young Cheerleader. In total, 13 people were attended as a result of these conflicts.
Soares’ mother, Viviane Eugenia, had published on social networks last Sunday (2), that he was hospitalized in the ICU of the Restoration Hospital and presented improvements. Already this Friday (7), wrote that the young “loves Sport”. She also posted images of João Victor in meetings with her family, with words like “one day at a time”, “God bless you, my son” and “Your family loves you.”
“Today, I begin to understand what an organized crowd is: in my little understanding and listening, I see that there is a certain fanaticism. It is a addiction similar to a chemical and emotional dependence, and many young people are led to abandon their own lives in Name of an ideology. Such should be a healthy competition.
Sport’s young fans issued a note last Wednesday (5), stating that the episode brings reflections on the type of conduct expected from its direction and announcing that “the entire executive board of the fans will be reformulated.” The organized said it will offer legal support to João Victor and “other victims”.
Images of the fights spread throughout social networks and shocked by violence.
In one of the shared videos, a man is beaten by a group of men, some of them with Santa Cruz shirts. He is then dragged by a street and has his clothes torn away, amid aggressions with punches, kicks and stabbing.
Until, the victim suffers sexual violence by several men who use objects similar to iron bars while still beaten in the head.
The Court of Justice of Pernambuco decreed that 13 people arrested in the act during the fight had their arrests converted to preventive on Monday (3). The decision was made during custody hearings held in Recife, Olinda and Jaboatão.
