Lima (EFE).- The goalkeeper of the Peruvian team, Pedro Gallese, left the Madrid police station without charge, where he gave statements for an incident with the Spanish Police, reported the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on his Twitter account.
“The General Consulate of Peru in Madrid informs that the player Pedro Gallese recently withdrew from the police station where he gave statements, without charges,” said the Foreign Ministry.
Gallese is going to the hotel of the concentration of the selection, which in a few hours will play a friendly against the selection of Morocco, added the message.
The Embassy and the Consulate of Peru in Spain assisted the members of the soccer team involved in an altercation with the Spanish National Police at the gates of their hotel in Madrid on Monday night and early Tuesday morning, where a large group of Peruvian fans.
Hours before, several players and other members of the expedition of the Peruvian soccer team clashed with some agents of the National Police who guaranteed their safety, during a reception organized by the fans at the gates of the NH Collection Eurobuilding hotel, a incident that resulted in Gallese’s appearance at a Spanish Police station.
The Peruvian team arrived at the hotel after the evening training session held at the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas.
As reported by police sources and corroborated by the images recorded by witnesses, some of the players of the Peruvian team, which is playing a friendly match in the Spanish capital against Morocco on Tuesday, exceeded the security perimeter marked by the National Police to greet the fans at the doors of the hotel where they are staying.
At that moment, the agents of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), better known as riot police, told them that they should go back towards the hotel door, which sparked shoving and slapping between police officers, members of the Peruvian expedition and fans.
In the videos broadcast through social networks, it can be seen that Pedro Gallese, Álex Varela and Yoshimar Yotún were some of the footballers involved in the altercations, which were finally neutralized by the Police.
Sources from the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) consulted by EFE classify the incident as “confusing” and indicate that through the videos released “they are trying to clarify the situation” and “resolve what happened.”
Peru will face Morocco this Tuesday in a friendly match to be held starting at 9:30 p.m. at the Cívitas Metropolitano Stadium.