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Isabel Guerra

Peru's Internal Affairs Minister, Octavio Salazar, reported that the Presidents of the major local soccer clubs agreed to a census and register their regular fans within 15 days.

In Peru, most clubs give free tickets to organized groups of their regular fans, but that has now become and issue since most violent hooligans come from these groups: but now clubs also agreed on not handing out more free tickets to these groups unless they have previously registered all their members.

Salazar had a meeting with the leaders of several soccer clubs, and discussed about alternatives of solutions to the violence generated by “barras bravas,” which is the name that violent soccer hooligan gangs have in Peru.

The controversy about these hooligans is in the center of public debate after the recent death of the young accountant Paola Vargas Ortiz, who was reportedly attacked by a group of hooligans.

Salazar also announced that video surveillance cameras are to be installed in all the stadiums where the local tournaments are held, to easily locate the people that start violence during the matches.

Meanwhile, Ronny Ramos, aka 'Bozo', who has been accused of being primarily responsible for Paola Vargas' death, has reportedly left the country.

His lawyer, Manuel Frisancho, reported to a local TV station that Ramos “will soon return to Peru to prove his innocence.”

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