About 600 fansaccording to police sources and about a thousand for the organization, have demonstrated today in Alicante against the management of the owner of Héculeles, Enrique Ortizand have demanded the mayor of the city, Luis Barcala, his mediation to force the businessman out of the entity.
The protest has been called by various groups of fans, such as Herculaneum Association or Herculaneum Unitand has had the support of numerous team supporters clubs, which will compete again next season RFEF Second Divisionthe lowest category in its almost hundred-year history.
The demonstration has started from the Plaza de Los Lucerosan emblematic place to celebrate the successes of the team, and has traveled through some of the main arteries of the city to the Town Hall Square. The march has had several banners with the phrases “Ortiz go now”, “Hercules CF, solution now” Y “Ortiz sell and go” and the fans, during their way to the City Hall, have launched numerous slogans against the businessman and the mayor.
“Board of directors, resignation”, “Ortiz family, get out of here”, “Where is the mayor, where is the mayor?” or “yes you can”, in allusion to forcing the exit of the owner of the entity, have followed some of the most chanted phrases. LThe followers, who have worn t-shirts, flags and scarves of the Alicante teamhave also sung the Hercules anthem on several occasions.
Hercules fans, demonstrating on Avenida Alfonso X el Sabio.
FITO GONZALEZ
Already in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, and before a smaller capacity than the demonstration, Herculaneum fans have deposited their banners in front of the door of the town hall building and proceeded to the reading a manifest by Sergio Fabra, a member of Unidad Herculana. Under the title of “Another Hercules is possible”, the fan has recalled the continuous “sports disasters and mistreatment of the fans” of Ortiz’s management and has assured that the businessman “is not indestructible” and that there is an alternative to his management.
He has also claimed the mediation of the City Council so that the year of the club’s centenary marks the end of the Ortiz era in the Hercules. The mayor of Compromís, the only political force represented in the act together with Podemos, Rafa Más, has also intervened in the act to point out that “nothing has done more damage to the Hercules and the city than Ortiz”. The concentration has ended without any incidents with the music of the hymn of Hercules.
A Hercules fan, wearing a Palomino shirt, speaks out.
FITO GONZALEZ