Soccer. “Negro, if the Duce was there you wouldn’t play”, in Forlì Daspo with two Ultras
Two sympathizers of far-right movements accused of "incitement to racial hatred" during the Forlì-Victor San Marino match
RIMINI – During the Forlì-Victor San Marino football match on 14 April, two Forlì ultras shouted racist chants towards two black players from the opposing team. Phrases like this: “Nigger, nigger, black ass, if the Duce was there they wouldn’t let you play.” The sentences, explains the Police, “were distinctly heard by some spectators as well as by the players themselves” and for this reason the police commissioner of Forlì-Cesena Claudio Mastromattei issued two five-year Daspo /strong> to the two ultras accused of the “serious episode of incitement to racial hatred“.
These are a fifty-year-old and a forty-year-old “sympathizers of far-right movements“, one of whom is no stranger to conduct of this type. In 2005, during the Forlì-Spal C2 match, again at the Morgagni stadium, the Police said, the man “had imitated the sound of the monkey every time two black players from the visiting team came into possession of the ball, an act for which he had already been reported and subjected to Daspo”.
THE INVESTIGATIONS
The investigations to identify the two ultras were conducted by the Digos and the Forensic Police who examined the images and the audio files and acquired testimonies that “nailed” the two to their responsibilities. With the identification also came the five-year Daspo for both and, for the repeat offender also the obligation to present and sign at the Police Headquarters, on the occasion of football matches, including international ones, including friendly matches.
“Once again the sense of responsibility and the spirit of great collaboration demonstrated by the people of Forlì who not only immediately expressed their dissent on the occasion of the football match but then collaborated with the State Police to reconstruct the facts and identify those responsible”, is the comment of the commissioner.
