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Legal action against 11 Roma fans over Nazi symbols
First Published: Feb 02, 2006 Legal action is being taken against 11 Roma fans for brandishing Nazi symbols durin g a Serie A game, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed.The 11 face prison sentences of between three months and one year. Roma have been ordered to play their next Serie A home match behind closed doors at a neutral venue as punishment for the Nazi symbols displayed by their fans at last Sunday's game against Livorno. To provoke the largely left-wing leaning Livorno fans, Roma supporters in the Olympic stadium's south stand waved flags with swastikas and held aloft an anti-semitic banner. In addition to the one-match ban on supporters, the Italian football league's disciplinary panel also fined Roma a total of 12,000 euros (14,485 dollars). Under legislation brought in by Pisanu last summer, football authorities have the power to suspend games if offensive banners or flags are seen in the stands. 意大利内政部长Giuseppe Pisanu 透露,11名带头闹事的球迷将被处以3个月到1年的监禁,同时罗马俱乐部被罚款12000欧元. [em07] |