Tonight: Riots all over Italy after Police killed a soccer fan

apparently the football fan was wearing a bulky jacket and was looking a bit shifty early reports state that his skin was a bit dark and his eyes were too close together.

police spokesman luigi "ian" blairovano states that they police were fully justified in this killing as they thought he had weapons of mass destruction

a street,or part of one

NETCU are up late tonight? Jeez, it Sunday an' all ... No pleasing the masters eh?

but if you have details then please give.

When the police shoot an innocent person in Italy the people riot. I wonder why they don't do the same here? Are we a complacent submissive lot where not one single person is ever held responsible for such a death? I mean the very worst that can happen to the culprits is that they lose their jobs in exchange for the killing. Is this really too high a price to pay by police?

The fan in question was a supporter of Lazio. This team has very strong connections with neo-nazi groups and some of their fans go by the name Ultras, who are some of the most famous hooligans in the sporting world. One lazio player that i know of has been fined, a paltry amount, for saluting the fans with "heil hitler" hand gesture. Now whether the man who was killed (Gabriele Sandri, disc jockey) was an Ultra or even a fascist, i do not know...but there is some background for you...

The young fan involved was according to family & lawyer not involved in fight & fans allover Italy are angry that the championship was banned last year after one copper was murdered,but one fan got just 15 minutes before one match.
Police station in Rome was stormed with rocks & clubs,fire after fans waited until a shift change.

Lazio a Rome team he supported do have a fash reputation with Di canio regularly doing the Roman fash salute & praising Mussolini, but most fans except for the noisy minority who are organised & get alot of attention are not fash.
They were playing Junventus another right wing team,Juventus from Turin in Northern Italy strangely get more support from fans in Southern Italy where fascism was strong. Mussolini used football massively & urged the creation of serie a.
Despite his open fascism Di Canio has been chosen to lift the Olympic flame for Rome.

In north Italian teams like Livorno are often left wing, people there remember politicians held back allied forces from invading Rome so the Nazis could soften up the left wing resistance who hung Mussolini themselves.
Left wing Ultras often confront the Nazis, Livorno fans conforntedopenly fash AS Roma fans & were arrested by police
 http://riotporn.blogspot.com/2006/01/fascists-communists-and-cops-clash-at.html

St Pauli the German 3rd division team has a massive left wing fan base way beyond its league position & some financial support from the Sisters of Mercy. They always start matches with ACDC & end them with BLurs song 2 & have more female fans than any other team. They have famoulsy beaten top teams thou in tournaments

Outside the stadium in Rome, where the game between AS Roma and Cagliari had also cancelled, at least three people and six policeman were injured, one of the latter seriously, in clashes, according to the ANSA news agency.

Hundreds of football fans, many masked and carrying batons, attacked a police barracks, burning a bus and several other vehicles.

The mobile crowd then succeeded in breaking into the nearby headquarters of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), where they looted offices and exploded a powerful cracker.

The police responded by launching several charges into the crowd and firing tear gas cannisters. Three people, including one woman, were arrested as police brought the situation under control.

In Bergamo, Atalanta fans clashed with police before their home game against AC Milan, forcing the referee to halt play seven minutes after kick-off.

The Atalanta 'ultras' charged the protection glass separating fans from the pitch, breaking it in two places.

Several players from the Bergamo club tried to reason with the fans but to no avail. After several minutes referee Massimiliano Saccani sent both teams back into the locker room. The game was later suspended.

In Milan, some 400 fans threw stones at police headquarters, while outside the stadium Lazio and Inter supporters chanted anti-police slogans.

In Siena, before the tie against Livorno, supporters shouted "murderers" at police and security officers, a scene reproduced in other stadia.

Third-placed Juventus fought back from a two-goal deficit at Parma to force a 2-2 draw thanks to second-half goals from Nicola Legrottaglie and Vincenzo Iaquinta while second-placed Fiorentina lost 2-1 at home to Udinese after the visitors scored a late winner through Antonio Di Natale.

Inter Milan hung on to the league lead, with 25 points, two points ahead of Fiorentina and also with a game in hand.

do we know h was actually shot i have a number of counter theories

1. being an italian as soon as he heard gunfire he ran away and noones seen him since so they declare him dead (much like his countrymen in world war 2)

2. he heard a gunshot but wasnt hit but just like talian footballers who fall to the floor (as though they are shot) during a tackle is trying to get some compensation or something

failing that he looked like a romanian and it doesnt matter anyway

He was actually shot and the cop who shot him has been charged with manslaughter, unlike our own cops, who appear to have a licence to kill as they can gun down Brits with impunity.

true but seeing as the last guy was shot shouldnt have been in this country in the first place he doesnt count