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Police: It was an accident Sunday 11 November, 2007
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A police statement has explained how Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri was shot by
accident and suggests the brawl may not have been football-related.
The 28-year-old was killed this morning in a motorway service station car
park when a stray bullet struck him on the neck as he was sitting in the back
seat of a car.
There has been a lot of confusion over how the incident happened and the police
statement still leaves some gaps in the story.
“At 09.10am two traffic police cars from the Battifolle district were alerted
by the sound of shouting and noises coming from the north car park of the
motorway service station,” explained the statement from the authorities in
Arezzo.
“Realising there was a violent brawl between the occupants of at least three
vehicles, the agents intervened by activating their siren and closing in on
the scene.
“One of the agents, in a bid to induce the brawlers to desist, fired two
shots. These were fired so that the fight that had broken out between a group
of people – who had not been identified as football fans – did not degenerate
into something more serious.
“Soon afterwards, one of the cars with five people on board continued its
journey to the Arezzo toll booth where they asked for help from the emergency
services. Medics who arrived at the scene tried to revive the man, but there
was nothing they could do.”
The car park has been cordoned off and ballistics experts have been working
at the scene all day to discover exactly how the bullet reached Sandri.
His lawyer and brother have launched serious accusations against the officer
who fired the gun, suggesting it was “murder, pure and simple.”
The authorities are interviewing the officer this evening in Arezzo and it’s
reported he is approximately 30 years old with several years of active service
on his CV.
There are suggestions the two officers walked out of their car towards the
scene of the brawl and fired two shots. The first was intended as a warning
into the air, but the second may have gone off accidentally as he lowered the
gun – and proved fatal, striking Sandri in the back of the neck.
Tension is sky high in Rome and there are riots breaking out around the city
as both Lazio and Roma Ultras try to exact some kind of revenge on the police,
who they accuse of ‘murder.’
Cars and buses have been set alight and tear gas had to be used outside the
Stadio Olimpico, while a group also tried to invade the CONI headquarters –
the Italian Olympic Committee.
It is rumoured that the police could opt to ban all travelling fans for the
foreseeable future from football games to prevent the possibility of violence.
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