Actually, I wanted to write a contribution to the current blog discussion about doping in football, also because Juventus "Bad Boy" Luciano Moggi on 20 January once again ask the court must stem - and the good old Juve is indeed now the only club to which one systematic use of the products of the pharmaceutical industry for the purpose of performance enhancement [...]

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The day before yesterday the news reached the media that 16 supporters of the extreme right have been arrested, partly connected with the neo-fascist Forza Nuova, a large part of the Lazio Ultras Association "In a basso destra" ("right below"). Investigations had revealed that they are members of a criminal organization, which - politically motivated - are accused of violent crimes, [...]

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How Cagliari president Massimo Cellini last year said it so beautifully: "If an airplane is hijacked, they chase the offender, including but not equal to the entire airport." I'm old school and believe confrontations weapons have no place in anything, no knife, no stick, no pepper spray - anything other than fists, as if it [...]

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Amazing is happening in Italy. The court in Rome ruled yesterday that the four have to do after the violent clashes in Rome after the death of Gabriele Sandris arrested ultras to do with terrorism. And not even 4 weeks after the fact! The "tribunal del riesame" chaired by Antonio Lo Surdo reserves Claudio Gugliotti, [...]

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In the course of the discussion on violence in the context of Italian football - former high point of the death of the Lazio fans Gabriele Sandri - was mentioned by all media of the death of Filippo Raciti during police Catania Sicilian derby against Palermo in February 2007. Perhaps it is useful [...] also this case once more to consciousness

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In my last two entries I have indeed primarily interested in how the media machine and the unwound state power its program to preserve the prestige of democracy and blame the ultras. Those in turn, exploit the death of Gabriele Sandris again for their own purposes. In short, a death that has very little to do with football [...]

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It is then interesting to see how the official state power can push to admit, what can be the basis of testimony and evidence no longer deny. Proceeding ("punish harder ultras" "tragic accident") by a general absolution for the shooter to close in the face of the evidence and witness statements now a manslaughter ('police officer was clumsy ") and no longer [...]

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Gabriele Sandri, 28, Lazio fan, Shot dead on the highway rest area Badia al Pino in Arezzo on the A1. Gabriele was on the way to penetrate his game after Lazio Milan as a projectile through the rear window in his neck. Apparently it had come to the Autogrill to disputes between the Lazio tifosi and the Juve fans who [...]

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