The violence of Italian football supporters

Furious football supporters were behind violent incidents across Italy on November 11 in the wake of the death of a Roma-Lazio supporter, killed by a policeman trying to end fighting between rival supporters in Tuscany. "The game has gone mad. We are in a world where enemy Ultras join together like brothers against the police," writes Gianni Mura who believes that the Italian football championship (the Calcio) should be stopped. "There should have been no play [yesterday]. It is easy to say now that dark has fallen, watching the images of guerrila warfare which shock us. ... Part of the Calcio is now on the warpath because of this death. For a policeman killed by a supporter the championship was stopped [in February 2007]. But when the opposite happens, kick-off is merely delayed ten minutes in a gesture of respect for the dead. Who can have made that decision ?"

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