According to the first information, Williams Tapón would have committed suicide while he was the subject of an investigation for “aggravated homicide for attempted treason in the context of a sporting event”.
On the night of this Monday, Williams Tapón was found dead in Argentina an amateur footballer from the La Cortada team who brutally kicked a referee in the head after a teammate was sent off.
According to initial reports, the footballer committed suicide after announcing that he would be investigated for “attempted murder aggravated by treason in connection with a sporting event ”.
The event happened last Saturday in a sports complex called Estación 98. The attack on the judge happened after an athlete pushed the referee after receiving a yellow card, which prevented him to see the red card. At this, Tapón stormed out and delivered two blows to his head which knocked the referee to the ground. Not happy with this, he kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious. .
In this way, the referee Ariel Paniagua, was hospitalized and on Monday he filed a complaint. Moreover, in an interview with Telefe Noticias he stated that “He could have killed me, today I was in a drawer, my family was crying for me and there is no context that justifies kicking me like that ”.
“I spoke with the delegate of his club, a very good person who apologized to me in the best way, but an apology from the heart did not come out of him, what he told me was ‘I did it in a fever’. I’m a single dad, what would my kids do if he killed me?” he added.
Finally, he reported that “at the start of the match he had already noticed that he was becoming hostile” and added that before the start of the match, the members of the La Cortada team “drank alcoholic beverages ”.
Later, Williams Tapón himself delivered his version to the same outlet. “It all started like this: two minutes passed and one of my teammates had already been hit and the referee didn’t take it. I was captain, so I told him ‘judge, take it, if you saw it, you were two meters away’. He told me ‘I didn’t see it’ and he didn’t charge anything, ”he started by telling.
“Okay, we kept playing, but we did a bad thing and he already threw everything at us: a jetoneaba, yellow. Another turned around and wanted to take the red one, which is why I was already angry and hit him, without realizing it. I already apologized, today we were talking with the referee. I’m telling you the truth, it made me sad. When I ran away everything was different and I thought ‘what did I do?’ “, He continued.
Later, journalist Nacho Genovert realized that they had found the dead player. “William Tapón, the aggressor of the referee of Sarandí, has just committed suicide. It happened when the victim was testifying. He committed suicide with a gun “, he wrote on Twitter.
“They found his body on the railway tracks, near General Paz and Heredia. I was 24 years old. The shot was in the parietal region,” he added.
“In the next few hours They will search the area to find the weapon with which the shot was fired. . Until now, they couldn’t find her near the body. In any case, samples were taken from the hands which corroborate that it was a suicide “, hill.
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