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After the incident in which two paramedics ended up being attacked on the outskirts of the BBVA Stadium after the game between Rayados de Monterrey and Blue Cross; one of them broke the silence and described everything he experienced during the attack.
In a telephone interview with deborah star for him morning newscast, Gerardo Martinez specified that both he and his partner Aurelio Jimenez Lombardo They were attacked without an apparent cause.
Martinez, who was recently discharged after having suffered a mild trauma, cervical sprain, chest contusion and abdomen contusion; He explained that he was doing his usual work routine before the unexpected attack perpetrated by royal fans, apparently from the bar The addiction.
“I drive the company’s utility truck to do some maneuvers in the stadium. I am parked in a corner, waiting for all that flow of people coming from the stadium to come down so that I can enter the stadium without any risk, it is regularly a maneuver that we commonly do ”, he began.
Subsequently, the paramedic he heard a knock in the back of the truck, forcing him to get out of it to verify its origin. That’s when a fan pounced on him and threw him to the ground. “I am parked, a knock is heard in the back of the truck and by inertia I go down to see what happened, a person comes out, hits me from behind and throws me to the ground,” he said.
Martinez revealed that in addition to trying to steal his cell phone, they also wanted to hurt him with a knife. “They try to take my phone away, I defend myself and where I stop again they throw me to the ground again, they took out a knife and they try to hit me with the knife, I dodge them, with my hand it causes me a small injury,” he said.
“I get into the truck to protect myself, then they come over me and start attacking me inside the truck, that’s what my partner Aurelio seems to be trying to remove those people who are hitting me inside and they go after him,” added.
Gerardo Martinez confirmed that the violent incident occurred for no reason and even came to think that it was a robbery. “There was no cause, there was no discussion, there was no outrage as they say, there was no reason to feel that we attacked someone, there was not even a word crossed, the aggression was direct, it was direct, an attempt to It seemed like theft, but there was no exchange with the fans of words, or anything, everything was sudden.
“There was no exchange of words, what I feel is that they wanted to take my phone away from me, at that moment I felt it as an attempted robbery or as if they were trying to steal my phone,” he added. Finally, the paramedic thanked his partner for her help during the altercation and confessed that the assault was a traumatic episode for him and his family.
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