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FOOTIE FISTICUFFS
mass brawl involving around 40 people broke out on Saturday afternoon involving two junior football teams and spectators at the Esteban Rosado stadium at Sports City, Torrevieja, with Guardia Civil and Local Police officers called in to break it up. Only two minutes were left on the clock of the Group Four Regional Preferente Juvenil (16 to 18 years category) clash between CF Torrevieja and CF Lacross Babel from Alicante, when things turned nasty, after Torrevieja had just levelled up the score at two-two. The referee stated in his match report, as reported by the Informacion newspaper, that a Torrevieja youngster, who was sat on the bench, decided to have a verbal altercation with a Babel player, who he accused of
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hitting the face of a Torrevieja teammate after the home side had made it two-all with a penalty. The words turned to action as the Torrevieja player then rushed onto the field and punched the Babel player with his right fist, inflicting a bruise on his left cheekbone as well as a nose bleed. Players from both sides, plus the substitutes, then joined in the altercation, with the fans (mainly family members of the players) deciding to enter the fray, as a mass fight replaced the scheduled sport of football, causing the referee to abandon the match and take refuge in the dressing room. External help was summonsed with four Guardia Civil patrol cars plus agents from Torrevieja's local police GRO team arriving at the scene and managing to
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break things up, with no need for an ambulance to be brought in. Nobody was actually arrested, but officers identified the main parties involved if individuals chose to take the matter further. The Informacion news-
paper reports that CF Torrevieja are going to take serious measures against their player, in addition to whatever action is taken by the Valencia FA, which at best will be a lengthy suspension for the unruly teen.
RUBBISH ROW DEEPENS
he main opposition parties on San Fulgencio council are taking steps to annul the controversial awarding of a 16-million-euro garbage collection contract for the municipality. The PIPN Independent party and the PSOE Socialists have joined forces to refer the franchise award to the central contractual court run by the Ministry of Finance in Madrid. The 22-year contract was given to UTE Entorno Urbano y Medio AmbienteAcciona after a council plenary meeting vote before Christmas (pictured).
The measure was passed by the San Fulgencio council on the recommendation of the government team led by Mayor Carlos Ramirez, who last year was sentenced to eight years of disqualification from public office for prevarication. He quit the Partido Popular and five of his PP colleagues were thrown out of the party, but they continue to rule San Fulgencio with a majority along with a UPyD councillor. One PP councillor refused to join them. The PIPN and PSOE say that proper procedures were not followed in the contract
award, including Mayor Ramirez allegedly ignoring a report that he himself commissioned warning that certain aspects of the tender process were not correct. Other concerns include opposition claims that prop-
er financial projections have not been carried out, and worries that the tender award could also cost San Fulgencio extra money, with the contract winner not assuming certain economic risks.
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