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

The victory of Gimnasia over Atlético Tucumán in the Forest was not only marked by the sports result, but will also be remembered for the electrical failures that forced the game to stop. Thus, days after the controversial match, the La Plata management presented a document to the Justice system claiming that an alleged cable theft could have been the cause, while 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 they reported a "public action crime, for the crime of theft, whose authors are unknown".

According to the presentation made, internal expert reports determined that the failure occurred in a power line that connects the generators with the lighting towers, specifically in the connection terminal, which caused an explosion and subsequent cut.

Once the breakage was detected, the system was repaired to continue with the match. In the report attached to the complaint, the institution pointed out that the damage was in an unusual point for a natural defect, which would rule out a common overload.

The technical reports highlighted that the facilities had enough margin to support the energy consumption and that the location of the failure suggested an external cause. For the management, the strongest hypothesis is an attempt to steal cables that, with use, led to overheating.

The document added that both the club's specialist and the supplier company's technician agreed that the state of the material was compatible with a possible theft attempt, the central argument that supports the request for investigation in the Justice system. Thus, in the same document, they asked the authorities to investigate "houses in the area that buy copper" to try to determine if this was the cause of the blackout.

Prior to the document, the coach of Atlético Tucumán, Lucas Pusineri, made clear his suspicions about the blackout and pointed out that everything could be part of a strategy to cool down the game, just when his team was on the attack. "This one about the lights is a bit old... What (Pablo) Dóvalo did say well is that if the game is played and it doesn't finish, it doesn't resume later. My team arrived three times and they turned off the lights", he pointed out to the television cameras, while trying to solve the problem.

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