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Italy cancels football weekend after fan death and hooligan riots
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| Last Edited | Patrick Nov 13, 2007 12:57pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Milan (dpa) - Italian football authorities have suspended the professional leagues for one round after the accidental killing of a fan by a policeman and the following hooligan riots in several cities.
Serie B and Serie C games will not be played next weekend, when the Serie A was already off as Italy play two Euro 2008 qualifiers against Scotland and the Faroe Islands Saturday and on November 21.
The Italian football federation (FIGC) took the decision late Monday following the request of Sports Minister Giovanna Melandri, who had said she expected "a meaningful action from football."
Hooligans rioted in Rome, Bergamo, Milan and Taranto Sunday after the death of Gabriele Sandri a Lazio fan heading for a Serie A game in Milan.
Sandri, 26, died at a motorway rest station Sunday morning when an agent fired warning shots to stop a clash among fans of Lazio and Juventus near the Tuscany town of Arezzo.
A committee of the interior ministry also met in the wake of the riots and stiffened existing anti-hooligans laws, prohibiting fans to follow their teams in away games and closing the curves of Bergamo side Atalanta and lower-division Taranto, whose die-hard fans Sunday caused the games to abandoned. |
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