The pitch invasion that a hundred RCD Espanyol supporters staged last Sunday after FC Barcelona’s victory continues to bring political consequences. Among the blue and white radicals who took to the pitch was a second PP candidate in the municipal elections. This is Carlos Ferrer-Calbet, who has given up going on the lists, like the other member of the conservative ranks and participant in the altercation in the parakeet stadium.
Carlos Ferrer-Calbet was number 11 on the PP list in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona) and had no chance of being chosen, given that today the popular ones have only one of the 27 plenary councilors of a municipality with most left-wing parties.
Ferrer-Calbet is not a militant of the popular, according to the Catalan News Agency (ACN). Both Ferrer-Calbetó and Yago Darnell, who was on the Sant Joan Despí lists, have presented a signed document in which they agree not to collect the councilor’s minutes if they are chosen.
On the other hand, the Mossos d’Esquadra have considered that it was very difficult to prevent hundreds of radical Espanyol fans from jumping onto the pitch. In an interview with RAC-1, the mayor Josep Saumell, general coordinator of Sports for the Mossos, indicated that the celebration of the FC-Barcelona players on the pitch of the RCDE Stadium was not “excessive” and has alleged that an invasion like that of the blue and white radicals is “almost impossible” to avoid.
Saumell explained that the Mossos are now focusing on reviewing the images of the invasion to identify the perpetrators of the jump into the countryside and the instigators – Darnell has already made a voluntary statement at the police station – and that they are preparing a report that they will send to the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to Saumell, “if a group of 25 or 30 people decide, collectively, to jump onto the field suddenly, it is almost impossible to stop them. We would have to put fences, a moat, a private security person next to another”. When asked about the celebration that the culés players did on the pitch of the RCDE Stadium, he pointed out that it was not “excessive”.
“I don’t blame Barça for anything. It is Barça himself who says that, out of responsibility and conscience, he has to do it quickly and leave. Is the time they were (celebrating the title) short or long? Three minutes seems little to me, to another it will seem like a lot”, commented the Sports coordinator of the Mossos, who does not see a provocation in the attitude of the Barça players.
