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Italy to Bury Policeman Killed in Fan Riot
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Italy's soccer industry urged government and sporting authorities meeting on Monday to lift a ban on soccer matches as the nation prepared to bury a policeman killed by rioting fans.

A soccer-mad nation which only seven months ago celebrated a World Cup victory was stunned by the outcome of riots at a derby between rival Sicilian teams Catania and Palermo on Friday, in which one man died and more than 70 people were injured.

Ministers and soccer federation officials have vowed to hammer out emergency measures. Possible steps reportedly being considered include banning spectators from unsafe stadiums and redirecting a percentage of TV profits to improve security.

But the industry was worried that officials could decide to prolong a costly suspension imposed last Friday on a sport that, beyond being a national obsession, rakes in an estimated six billion euros ($7.81 billion) a year.

Antonio Matarrese, who represents the financial interests of the teams as president of the football league, said hooliganism was a largely a police matter and matches should be resumed.

"We are pained, but the show must go on," he told La Repubblica newspaper. "Football must never shut down."

Speaking about the death of 38-year-old policeman Filippo Raciti, Matarrese said: "Deaths in the football system unfortunately are part of this enormous (hooligan) movement that the police have not been yet able to control."

Guerrilla war

The prime minister described the riots in the Sicilian city of Catania as a "guerrilla war". Hooded youths wielding metal poles and large firecrackers lashed out at police, as streams of fans fled down city streets to safety.

"It was terrible, terrible, terrible," said Pierluigi Zotta, one Rome soccer fan who had had time to reflect on the violence after a weekend without soccer.

"Unfortunately most people on Sunday spend their day watching football, I didn't know what to do with myself, but after this terrible thing it was right that football was stopped."

A firecracker which exploded in Raciti's face was initially considered the cause of death, though a prosecutor said an autopsy showed it was due to a blow from a blunt object.

Catania readied for a funeral to be led by the archbishop and attended by Interior Minister Giuliano Amato. Prime Minister Romano Prodi sent a message to Raciti's widow and two children.

"The sacrifice of your husband and your father, chief inspector Filippo Raciti, has shocked and moved Italy," Prodi said.

"To die on a day of celebration, during a sporting event that dozens of criminals transformed into a guerrilla war, is, if possible, even more absurd."

Raciti was the 13th person to be killed in or around Italy's soccer stadiums since 1962. The last fatality at a Serie A match happened in 1995 when a Genoa fan was stabbed to death before a game against AC Milan.

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), at an emergency meeting on Sunday, urged clubs to break off all relations with violent fans and said stadiums which fail to adopt tough measures could be banned from staging games next season.

(China Daily via Agencies February 6, 2007)

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