Fans and family said goodbye for the last time – VG

In the cemetery where Maradona will be buried, there were riots before the coffin arrived. People threw stones at the police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. At around 11:30 pm Norwegian time, the entourage entered the cemetery with the coffin.

Only those closest to Maradona participated in the ceremony.

According to the AP news agency, he was buried there next to the grave of his parents Dalma and Diego.

The great Argentine soccer hero died on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 60.

He stopped along the road and sang

About two hours before the ceremony at the Jardin Bella Vista Cemetery, the procession prepared to remove Maradona’s coffin from the presidential palace.

VG was present in Buenos Aires where the atmosphere was electrifying when the procession took to the streets. Due to the chaos outside, the procession decided to leave the government building by a different path than planned.

The procession consisted of a flower-adorned cart, a stretcher cart, and several other cars. The stretcher was guarded and closely followed by a dozen police motorcycles. Still, people flocked to the car whenever they got the chance.

Along the road, people from everywhere stood up to send Maradona away with shouts, flags and songs.

At the cemetery, the police had to fight their way through several hundred people present, dancing and singing in the street.

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On Thursday morning, the coffin with Maradona was in the presidential palace to light candles, so that people could finally say goodbye to the superstar. First to leave was his immediate family, including his ex-wife Claudia Villafañe, his daughters DAlma and Gianinna, his second ex-wife Verionca Ojeda, and his son Dieguito Fernando.

More than a million people were expected, and when the queuing system collapsed, after it was initially decided that the seam of Maradona’s coffin stretched for three hours, there was chaos.

No one was allowed to enter, and finally the display of the coffin in the presidential palace was interrupted after 12 hours. When the police tried to break up the crowd, the angry fans, which they deserved after entering, responded by throwing rocks and other things at the police. Rubber bullets were then fired into the crowd, and several were injured, according to TN television.

The television channel reported riots on Avenida 9 de Julio throughout the night of Thursday, where people tried to reach the Casa Rosada where Maradona’s coffin is displayed.

– Impossible to control

Nerera López was still outside the palace with her friend Martín, waiting for him to enter and say goodbye to Maradona.

VG also met the couple Julieta López and Tomás Fox, who had the queue for six hours. It was just before their turn to enter the palace that chaos broke out.

– It is impossible to control this, there are so many people. It’s a shame that all the Argentine people have to pay the price when a few create chaos, López says.

– There are families among us who want to enter, but on the avenue the police began firing rubber bullets. I don’t think they will let us in now, some people have drunk a lot of alcohol, he says.

Several arrested

Just after 6 p.m. Norwegian time, a line closed and the TN television channel showed images of police officers firing into the air to disperse the crowd. Several have been arrested and VGTV footage shows injured people being carried away. Also early Thursday, there were riots in connection with the dismissal.

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Firefighters threw water into the air so people could cool down. There were also riots at the entrance to the presidential palace. People tried to cross the barricades of the palace, where the military police have taken up positions to calm the mood.

After the casket left the main avenue and headed toward the cemetery, the mood calmed among Maradona fans downtown.