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Ultras are not terrorists

altravita of Thursday, 6 December 2007 3 Comments

Amazing happened in Italy. The court in Rome ruled yesterday that the 4 after the violent clashes in Rome after the death of Gabriele Sandris arrested Ultras nothing to do with terrorism have to do. And not even 4 weeks after the events! The "tribunal del riesame" chaired by Antonio Lo Surdo reserves Claudio Gugliotti, 21 years, and Saverio Candamano, 27 years in custody, but leaves the prosecutor exacerbated by the accusation of terrorism fall. The two ultras, the former fan of the Roma, the other from Lazio, were on the night of the 11th November in the attack on the police station in Via Guido Reni involved and accused the devastation, criminal damage and throwing objects against persons.

Only under house arrest, however, will Valerio Minotti, he also 21 years, and (for some days) Lorenzo Sturiale, 30, both simply because of lower accused of misconduct. Partly satisfied with the decision because even expressed Gugliottis lawyer Francesco Romeo: "It is an important step forward for the defense. To the angry reaction of the Tifosi, the prosecutor with equal Emozionalität ( "emotività") responded by serious crimes indicted in the accusation of terrorism culminated. It was an exclusively due to the circumstances reaction, with the attempted without success, the stereotype of a new 'enemy', the non-existent "ultra terrorista", introduced into the public consciousness. "

Severe doubts about the events of that night because even refer to the Claudio ebenjenes arrest Gugliotti, two days after his arrest due to severe respiratory problems to hospital emergency Sandro Pertini had to be relocated. Fortunately, his injuries were contrary to the initial diagnosis as injury-related lung damage, which after a few days abklangen. Difficult to imagine that these violations unrelated to the dynamics of the arrest should have to do. The prosecutor was in any event, both from the Regina Coeli prison, then by the Santo Spirito Hospital and later by medical experts from the Defense informed.

The prosecutor who still does not approach in relation to the allegations of medical records durchgerungen has, however, gives hope for a follow-up of the offense of terrorism 'or not. In the next few days will make a further approach expects an appeal is likely. The success of such an approach is more than questionable - two years ago already undertook the prosecutor of Bologna attempt, the accusation of terrorism to a completely different situation than stored criminal law and failed terrific array of legal opinion of the Supreme Court, which is very clearly stated That the accused terrorism offenses a fundamentally political motive to lie, and that the rollover plan also means must be pursued to overthrow this as a potentially successful appearance ( "lo aim eversivo (...) perseguito con mezzi potential suscettibili di mente realizzarlo") . That sounds even more like civic sense and common sense. Because that whether the lethal action of the police forces against one of them and the response of the League, the play was unimpressed continue, Tifosi furious as the primary target of a revolution in the eye and also had the resources, the implementation of such a revolution, exceeds my wildest fantasies. Dear children: "No power to drugs!"

The only really vehement reaction to the dropping of terrorism allegation that even the Interior Ministry Zähneknirschen acceptance, because even came from a corner, the sense is not precisely known, from Jole Santelli Members of Forza Italia. This keeps the decision unjustified and pointed out that they believe something else is whether you have a garbage container umstösst or solid state power attacks. Tolerance was in a civilian government totally misplaced when it comes that someone uncontrollably angry and attacking the security forces. I would like to ask the lady what she considers them when ebenjene state power a few hours earlier than 80 meters a sleeping football specifically from the rear by the rear window of a car on the highway rest stop shoots and whether their definitions of "country Civile" and "forze dell 'Ordine "really happening to the death of Gabriele Sandri (or even the death Filipo Racitis) cover.

The strike by the Ultras, however, goes further. At the functioning Italian legal system requires you prefer not here first.

Category: Football Keywords: AS Rome shot football Gabriele Sandri violence Italy Lazio Rome terrorism Tifosi Tifoso death Ultra

3 answers until now ↓

  • Butch Jonny on Saturday, 8th December 2007, at 17:31 clock

    was really astonishing speed. the restriction of terrorismusvorwurfes also seems to me very important. so quick to condemn any ultimate. A similar einschrängung, the German Constitutional Court in August against the detained suspected members mg imposed. these patterns are discharged and are now (only) because of arson accused ... seems a little more rational in the head of the judiciary to slumber, but it gets too far but they will not get out! (which actually eat the ultra-strike?)

  • 1 admin on Saturday, 8 December 2007, at 18:14 clock

    In order to answer your question: At a meeting of the Ultra-Capos all clubs in the Serie A number of measures were decided, the increasing criminalization of organized football fans publicly oppose, in the shooting of Gabriele Sandris culminated. Above all, should be a sign that after the incidents in 2007 not continue, as before. The evacuation of the Fancorner in memory of Gabriele at Derby Milan / Juve was such an action or the fans of Roma at the home of the stadium immediately and completely absent in the game in the Roman Forum jointly mitgebrachten radios to listen. Similar actions will accompany the Italian football until further notice in almost all stages, particularly noteworthy here is the cohesion otherwise infinitely Ultra-warring groups. People begin to defend against it, and generally monothematic in criminal and violent corner and pushed with repression and persecution proves to be.

    The terrorist accusation is at the moment anyway the manslaughter argument against any kind of organized opposition from the state and is also targeted as a bogeyman in order restrictions on freedom and individual rights to legitimize a flat rate and the press makes so busy with it. It was exciting to see how even Sunday afternoon, shortly after the death of the sleeping Gabrielesdurch the hand of a policeman, from all sides after tougher action against violent football fans was called. It is quite obviously embarrassed that this is not really about curbing the violence goes: Ultra groups are largely decidedly apolitical (politics from many corners is explicitly banned, a fact which, moreover, was to dissolve the "Fossa dei Leoni" led As I write times soon forget it), but numerous, gur organized, with a strict hierarchy and some economic and public power effectively equipped. Such power is now not only the club bosses and sponsors of the product uncanny football, but of course also makes the regulatory powers fear. For example, to avoid unpleasant subjects close to a million public market, all choreography and banners saying recently, well before the start of the game submitted and approved. Because the "damned Juve" it could be? Hardly.

    So while I know enough Faschos here, the large swastika tattoos for public review bear in tourist shops wine bottles with Duce portrait sold and Nazi violence against minorities in Italy is not unusual, the state has significantly larger unease over not really controllable large organized groups of people. It was particularly shocked by the vehemence with which the ultras with their attacks on Roman police barracks in the media created public - with a direct attack on the state power! Of course it was all nothing to do with terrorism, which is now one had to admit, but it is the authorities have failed to reverse cause and effect and to hush up the case, abzuwiegeln, totzuschweigen. While my confidence in the Italian policy is about as big as in Germany, appears in the judiciary and in parts of the press still some residual independence to exist. One can quite critical look at what happened in Italian stadiums, tens of thousands under general suspicion on an equal footing with Al Qaeda to make any case exactly the nonsense, as he now has been assessed.

  • 2 20 from the ultra right-wing environment in Rome arrested "From altravita" football "blog Italy on Wednesday, 27 February 2008, at 17:45 clock

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