METALLICA: Raw Footage Of Bogota Riots

March 11, 2010

Video footage of the chaos that erupted Wednesday night (March 10) as hundreds of METALLICA fans without tickets attempted to crash the band's concert at Bogota, Colombia's Simon Bolivar Park can be viewed below.

Around 160 people were arrested and at least eight people injured during the riot, according to Sky News.

Bogota's Regulatory Center of Emergency Services said four policemen and four civilians were hospitalized for injuries and that one youth was stabbed, according to the web site Colombia Reports.

The police, who were expecting crowd trouble, had deployed 1,500 officers, four tanks and several police trucks to manage the event.

Some 30,000 people had tickets to see the band in the Colombian capital, but hundreds of ticketless fans tried to break through barriers to see their heroes, according to Sky News.

Prior to the concert, there were posts on social networking site Facebook inciting fans to crash the gig.

Ruben Castillo, a local police chief, said the rioters also damaged property around the park.

"Those people that did not get in wanted to get in by force," he said.

"The presence of police and riot teams was necessary because these misfits - there's no other name for them — damaged some windows in the surrounding area."

Pre-show press conference and platinum album presentation:

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