Red alert! Lucas Torreira wants out of Turkey after stalker threats | OneFootball

The Uruguayan midfielder for Galatasaray, Lucas Torreira, asked his agent, Pablo Betancur, to urgently arrange his departure from Turkish football. The decision comes in response to a new and serious episode of violence involving the same man who had already attacked him months earlier at a shopping mall in Istanbul.

The conflict dates back to last May 12, when the footballer was struck from behind by YusufY., a 32-year-old man with a record of intentional assault. According to leaked court files, the attacker acted out of obsessive jealousy over Torreira’s relationship with İpek Birol, a woman for whom Yusuf harbored a “platonic love” and from whom he was already under a restraining order. “After seeing photos of them together on Instagram, I started to feel hatred toward him. When I found out they were at the Rixos Hotel, I took a taxi there in a fit of rage and punched him in the face,” the attacker said after his first arrest, as reported by the newspaper Hürriyet.

Despite the prior threats on social media detailed in the police report, Yusuf Y. was released this Wednesday. Immediately after leaving prison, the man tracked down Torreira’s driver, attacked him, and issued a disturbing warning: “I’ve come to finish the job I started.” In light of this alarming situation, Turkish police have opened a new investigation, while the Uruguayan midfielder is pushing to leave the country immediately for security reasons.

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