Tragedy of Gate 12 - River Plate vs Boca Juniors 1968

Bs. As .: Journalistic note on the tragedy of Puerta 12. The head of the Argentine Federal Police, General Mario Fonseca at the door of section 33 receives the president of the Argentine Republic, Lieutenant General Juan Carlos Ongania. Views of nurses attending injured in the hospital. The deputy head of the Argentine Federal Police, Inspector General Alberto Gonzalez, who is accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Guillermo Borda, leaves the commissary. Report to the director of investigations, Mr. Venturino, in which he is asked: - What do you think of the magnitude of this disaster? Meeting of the board of directors of Club Atlético Boca Juniors with its president Alberto J. Armando and its vice president Miguel Zappino. Report on the door of the police station 33 to the president of the Athletic Club River Plate, scribe William Kent and the gentlemen secretaries and treasurers: - What can you say of this tragedy? -What do you think was the origin of what happened? - The doors were perfectly open? - Could this tragedy repeat itself? - What size will they take? After having remained for 20 minutes inside the police station 33, Juan Carlos Ongania, accompanied by the chief and deputy chief of the Federal Police, Mario Fonseca and Alberto Gonzalez, withdrew. The archbishop of Buenos Aires, Monsignor Antonio Caggiano, accompanied by Monsignor Ernesto Segura, enters the police station 33. Views of the people double-rowed in the police station 33 to recognize the 35 corpses that are in the place lined up and numbered. Monsignor Antonio Caggiano withdraws from the police station 33 and makes statements. The intendant of the city of Buenos Aires, General Manuel Iricibar, withdrew from the police station. Report to Iricibar: - What do you think of what happened? -Are you going to take any action with regard to stadium safety? In the interior of the office of the commissioner Anibal Eugenio Vigo, owner of the sectional 33 that intervenes in this tragic event, the payroll of the victims is given and he replies that up to now there are 70 dead and 65 wounded. Brief sequences of the match between River Plate vs. Boca Juniors (0-0), attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Nicanor Costa Mendez and the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Guillermo Borda. Firefighters sectionalists review the turnstiles at the entrance to Gate 12. Close-ups of numerous pairs of footwear stacked on the door 12. Family members of the victims leave the police station. (Leo Gleizer)

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