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Fan shot dead in Italy

Fan shot dead in Italy

11 November 2007 - 19:24

A policeman has shot dead a football fan in Italy, Gabriele Sandri, a 26 year old DJ was shot in the neck by the policeman who fired two shots. The fan was shot in Rome in a car of Lazio fans.

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  • Three Serie A matches were called off after the shooting, which police said was accidental and took place after Lazio and Juventus supporters clashed at a motorway rest stop near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.



    "It was a tragic error," the police chief in Arezzo, Vincenzo Giacobbe, said in a statement. "Our agent intervened to prevent the scuffles between two small groups of people ... from degenerating," he said.



    "I express my deep grief and sincere condolences to the family of the victim."



    "They killed my brother," Cristiano Sandri shouted at reporters at the police station in Arezzo. "It was voluntary homicide," said the family's lawyer, Luigi Conti.


    Written by majicka










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