Brazilian reporter witnessed Brazil football game brawl

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Edson Viana, a reporter from Brazilian television network TV Rede Globo, witnessed the violent brawl at a football match in Southern Brazil, that left three people seriously injured. The match between Vasco da Gama and Atletico Paranaense was being broadcast live, and had to be suspended for over an hour. "19 minutes in the first half, all of a sudden started a huge fight in the stadium. Thousands of supporters were fighting, before that they were saying things to each other, yelling", said Mr Viana. The reporter said the decision was made locally to not have police officers inside the stadium, as it was deemed a private event: “A private event, just like a football match or a show could have private security, so the policemen were outside of the stadium, "In other stadiums in Brazil, in other cities, it is different than that, so the private security wasn’t enough for the amount of supporters that we had inside the stadium and they couldn’t control that, only after they called the enforcement of the policeman they could control".