Gimnasia sue over cable theft in blackout vs Atlético Tucumán | OneFootball

The victory of Gimnasia over Atlético Tucumán at El Bosque was not only marked by the sporting result, but will also be remembered for the electrical failures that forced the game to be stopped. Thus, days after the controversial match, the club’s management in La Plata submitted a written statement to the courts, claiming that an alleged cable theft may have been the cause, while also requesting that the matter be investigated.

The club, with the signature of its president Mariano Cowen and the legal sponsorship of lawyers Flavio and Luisana Gliemno, submitted a document in which it reported a “public action crime, for the crime of theft, whose perpetrators are unknown.”

According to the statement, internal inspections determined that the failure occurred in a power line connecting the generators to the lighting towers, specifically at the connection terminal, which caused an explosion and subsequent outage.

Once the break was detected, the system was repaired so the match could continue. In the report attached to the complaint, the institution noted that the damage was found in an unusual spot for a natural malfunction, which would rule out a common overload.

The technical reports highlighted that the facilities had sufficient capacity to handle the energy consumption and that the location of the failure suggested an external cause. For the management, the strongest hypothesis is an attempted cable theft that, through use, led to overheating.

The document added that both the club’s specialist and the technician from the supplying company agreed that the condition of the material was consistent with a possible attempted theft, a central argument supporting the request for a judicial investigation. Thus, in the same document, they asked the authorities to investigate “houses in the area that buy copper” to try to determine if that was the cause of the blackout.

Prior to the statement, Atlético Tucumán’s coach, Lucas Pusineri, made his suspicions about the blackout clear and suggested that it could all be part of a strategy to cool down the match, just as his team was on the attack. “This thing with the lights is a bit old… What (Pablo) Dóvalo did say, and he was right, is that if the match is being played and doesn’t finish, it won’t be resumed. My team attacked three times and they turned off the lights,” he said on television as they tried to resolve the issue.

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