Explosion at the headquarters of Deportes Quindío in Armenia

Around 10 o’clock on Saturday night, the community of the La Castellana neighborhood, in the north of Armenia (Quindío), reported to the authorities an explosion in the administrative headquarters of the Deportes Quindío team, one of the professional soccer clubs in the coffee region.

Police came to the place to verify what the emergency was about for which the inhabitants of that sector made the call.

“We are here in the administrative headquarters of Deportes Quindío, in the city of Armenia, where the neighbors reported having heard a detonation. Indeed we are already as the National Police, with our crime laboratory verifying that this detonation could have generated,” reported Colonel José Luis Ramírez Hinestroza, commander of the Quindío Police.

The officer also indicated that due to this fact, no injuries were registered, only damage to the headquarters of the second division team.

“We want to officially report that there is only material damage to two windows, and that fortunately there are no injured people,” added Colonel Ramírez.

In the digital medium La Crónica del Quindío They reported that the authorities are also reviewing the recordings of the security cameras in that neighborhood to verify if it is a demonstration against the management of that team.

The fact does not go unnoticed, after the Quindío followers held protests that were interpreted as threatening.

The most recent took place last holiday Monday, when some fans of the coffee team circumvented the security of the Centenario stadium in that coffee city and they left scattered eggs and chicken parts on the grass, to tell the team players to ‘put eggs’.

The event occurred prior to the game that Quindío played at home against Atlético Huila and which ended tied without goals.

From weeks ago, a group of Quindío supporters had also made another controversial protest, leaving a funeral wreath at the entrance of the club’s administrative headquarters.

The flower arrangement used at funerals read: “They buried us in B” and it had also been made with a shape similar to that letter.

In Colombia, this type of crown has been used by criminals to threaten their victims with death, for which there was outrage.

Nevertheless, one of the leaders of the group that participated in the controversial protest assured that it was not intimidation, but rather a symbolic burial of the team with which they wanted to draw the attention of the directors for the bad results of the club in the last 20 years.