The ultra of Betis who has 27 antecedents for the attack on a citizen in Bilbao is arrested

The Seville National Police arrested three young people on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the attack in Bilbao in the run-up to the soccer match between Athletic and Betis on April 27. The one who is considered the material perpetrator of the events, Manuel Herera, had already been arrested on 27 occasions for different crimes, such as homicide, injuries, attacks and extortion among others. According to police sources, Manuel Herrera, 28 years old , was arrested in Benacazón as the alleged perpetrator and transferred to the Police Headquarters pending a statement for an alleged hate crime.In addition, JMO, a 28-year-old resident of this municipality, has also been arrested for this same crime. He lacks a history, and the alleged author of the recording of the events that ended up on social networks, SJLM, 29 years old and a native of Seville, although a neighbor of Alcalá de Guadaíra. He has three previous arrests for injuries, public disorder and an attack.According to what was already reported on the day of the events, the Ertzaintza had identified three ‘ultras’ from Betis for participating in this attack on a man who was reading the newspaper calmly on a terrace of a bar in the Plaza Nueva in Bilbao, and that they recorded the attack and disseminated it on social networks.According to the Basque Security Department, at 12:45 a.m. an individual informed the Basque Police of an attack on a male in the New Square of Bilbao. After a patrol was sent to the scene, they identified three people (the alleged assailant and two young men who accompanied him and who recorded the attack) as well as the victim, who did not want to file a complaint.In the video that circulates on social networks, you can see how the aggressor approaches the cry of ‘Arriba España’ with a large glass of drink to a man who reads the newspaper on a terrace in the Plaza Nueva and asks him if he is’ proetarra ‘, he pours the drink on him and gives him a cake, kicks and punches him. The victim runs away into the bar, amid the laughter of those who record the video and those who accompany the assailant.