After disturbances and clashes between the police and soccer fans in Cordoba and Mar del Plata streets due to the elimination of Argentina from the Korea- Japan 2002 World Cup, authorities arrested 71 individuals.
According to Cordoba's police chief Ivan Altamirano, in this city's disturbances 57 individuals were arrested, most of them under the effects of alcohol, after looting several establishments.
Violent demonstrations started when some 300 individuals met outside Patio Olmos commercial center in Cordoba's downtown, north of Buenos Aires, and launched bottles and other objects to the streets.
Later, they stoned windows of the shopping center, neighbouring establishments and the Court's windows.
The police had to use rubber bullets to disperse them.
In Mar del Plata, authorities arrested 14 other fans who broke windows from an important shopping center and a bank from the area.
The national team was eliminated from Korea-Japan 2002 after a 1-1 draw with Sweden.
(Xinhua News Agency June 13, 2002)
