Actually, I wanted to contribute to the current blog discussion about doping in football writing, also because Juventus "Bad Boy" Luciano Moggi on 20 January once again ask the court shank must - and the good old Juve is indeed now the only club that's been proven systematic use of the products of the pharmaceutical industry for the purpose of performance clear (not that that would have led to penalties, prohibited list, and EPO tests were indeed designed to come out that nothing was fixed dish). But Italy is not poor in scandal , so I prefer to follow the movements in the case of Gabriele Sandri. Those who no longer remembers: The young Lazio fan was installed in November 2007 to highly suspicious manner by a bullet from a policeman to death . (Further information can be found eg here and here and if you up right after "Gabriele Sandri" searches.)

Meanwhile, who was first anniversary of the fatal shootings at Sandri and after so the actual start of the trial last year was brought by the defense in a very elegant way to case (Attorney Gianpiero Renzo said he had not received the summons and it was his "good law" to postpone the trial began three months - and Sandris mother casually treat the painful experience all over again), it will start Friday but now it really, frankly and without respect of persons solve the case, on 11 November 2007 in the motorway service area Badia al Pino led to the death of a football fans. The decision on the indictment is pending. Because the shooter, Luigi Spaccarotella, has so far not even legally prosecuted service. And, although he did move away several matching testimony from his original claims, and then only to not have fired into the air. It is now regarded - at least among eyewitnesses - as undisputed that the officer has made the fatal shots from both hands holding the weapon in outstretched arms in a man's height. Consequences? No.

Friday will not appear Spaccarotella for now in court. "There is no information provided and to escape the media onslaught," explains attorney Bagattini. Yes, that one can understand really terrible and traumatic, this media coverage. Mainly because it has indeed been a accident. In order to avoid further pain to the man, he will certainly not be present. Meanwhile, the prosecution has made ​​the case but thought and presented their ideas to Tatablauf in a video :

Prosecutor Giuseppe Ledda will present the simulation on Friday in Arezzo, in order to substantiate the charge on intentional homicide ("omicidio volontario"). It is then up to the judge (Giudice per le = GUP Udienze Preliminaries) allowing the appeal. The 1.37 minute long video testimony is based on four different phases and reconstructed the events of 11 November, 2007. See, among other things, the shooter who fires a shot from both hands, which is deflected by a wire fence and therefore meets the car. That still does not explain why the man shoots down across the highway, but then one is at least the allegation of "shoot to kill" going on, after Spaccarotellas previous submissions so now really did not hold.

Spaccarotellas current version, however, also publishes the excellent re Repubblica , which accompanies the event has always been critical, factual, and reflected on its website. In the video there appears to trigger the shot unintentionally during running. This is consistent with any individual testimony and raises the question why he runs along because with a loaded gun in his hand on the highway - where but the law is (probably solved so that no shots) to the service weapons provide very clear that after a gun discharging a warning shot is put back into the holster and to close this was. Then yes something happen and not me, no one would explain why such (supposing it's true) unqualified poking around with a loaded gun in traffic, at least not lead to employment law consequences.

While the prosecution is so well-aimed shots on (and hence the great risk of injury and death) and this stiffens accuses accompany Spaccarotellas defender Francesco Molino and Giampiero Renzo attorneys' her video "with a summary of their defense strategy:

"Spaccarotella ha sparato in aria Mentre un Gruppo di incappucciati aggrediva uno Juventino - Hanoverian ribadito i difensori - poi nella corsa è partito un colpo accidental, che oltretutto ha subito una deviazione decisiva" -. Spaccarotella shot into the air, while a group with Hooded veiled one person Juventino attack - was then mistakenly released while running a surplus, which was also diverted critical.

Michele Monaco, family lawyer Sandri is of course very different view, pointing out that at least four witnesses to prove exactly the opposite:

"La verità è che Spaccarotella mirò altezza d'uomo e Sparo ad (...) Il proiettile semmai deviato ha per l'Impatto con il vetro dell'auto. Se la rete avesse colpito sarebbero state Trovat tracce Tues zinco Lasciate dal rivestimento del proiettile. Ma non è avvenuto. "- The truth is that Spaccarotella has on a man's height, and deliberately shot. The ball was if anything more than diverted through the glass window of the car. If it had hit the wire fence, zinc would have been found traces of the projectile casing. But they were not. "

I'm curious on how it manages the defense to convince a broad, interested public that have been the fatal shots at Gabriele Sandri, a tragic accident. An accident, which - as was the strange circumstances of the death of the policeman Filippo Raciti meim Sicilian derby attract served to the repression screw against football fans unbearable, away fans already times - "control" to 3 hours in the freezing rain on the highway or just every now and then times to shoot one. The gunman, meanwhile, Luigi Spaccarotella goes on to his service.