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Facing Mahfud, Yohanes cries over the Kanjuruhan tragedy

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia

Supporters Arema FC Yohanes Prasetyo recounted the moment he begged the police not to shoot him with tear gas The Kanjuruhan tragedy.

Yohanes became one of tens of thousands of Aremania players who watched Arema FC defeat Persebaya Surabaya 2-3 at Kanjuruhan Stadium on Saturday (1/10).

Before the tragic event occurred, Yohanes said he had absolutely no intention of going down to the camp area. He actually he wanted to go home because he had to work after watching Singo Edan’s team game.

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Yohanes had the opportunity to share his experience with the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs MahfudMD at the Mata Najwa event.

“I don’t actually have the initiative to go to the pitch. I want to go home, I want to work after I get home to see Arema,” said Yohanes who couldn’t hold back his tears when he told the incident to the Kanjuruhan stadium, mentioned by Mata Najwa’s Youtube show, Thursday (6/6) 10).

“[Setelah] 90 minutes I didn’t go straight home, waiting at the exit was a bit quiet. While waiting it turned out that there was a commotion, there were tear gas in the stands, if I’m not mistaken it was around the sixth or seventh grandstand. After that I got up quickly, I wanted to get out before I got scared [kejadiannya] insert [membuat saya] can’t get out. It doesn’t work, “he continued.

But Yohanes’ desire to leave the stadium and go to work did not come true. Instead, he was hit by teargas fired by security forces in the stands.

Yohanes also heard cries for help from young children and mothers who were in the Kanjuruhan stadium. The rumors made him decide to take the field and at the same time ask the security forces not to shoot tear gas into the stands.

“I can hear my Aremania brothers asking for help. Small children asking for help, the voices of mothers asking for help. This is what made me take the initiative to go to the camp, only asking the police not to continue. to shoot, “he said he said.

“Initially, the police officer said: ‘Oi to count your friends’. At that time [ada] one person yelled at me, started screaming, started an attack on me. The start of the attack from behind, aimed at the head, was a multiple attack, I did not see who attacked, Not see who the person is, not see the identity. “

The Kanjuruhan tragedy resulted in the deaths of 131 people. The national police named six suspects in connection with this tragedy, three of them from the football field, namely PT LIB chairman Akhmad Hadian Lukita, Arema president Panpel Abdul Haris and the security officer of the Singo Edan Suko Sutrisno’s team.

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(jal / nva)





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