Sentences of one to four years imprisonment to 10 fans of Lazio for a few incidents in 2002

Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Sixth Section of the Court of Rome has been sentenced to between one and four years imprisonment to ten fans of Lazio, members of the ultra 'Irriducibili', which caused serious incidents during a friendly in August 2002 against Juventus.

The game was played in the Olympic Rome and the 'tifosi' radical Lazio took advantage of anger over the decision of the club to transfer two of its best players, the Argentine striker Hernan Crespo and defender Alessandro Nesta Italy, to Inter and AC Milan respectively, and damaged the premises of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) in the stadium. The damage was valued at about 200,000 euros.

Apart from the ten convicts, which the Court has imposed penalties than those called for the Prosecution, four other defendants for these facts already agreed with the sentence the judge at the preliminary hearing, according to Italian media reported.

The highest penalty has fallen to Christian Fontana (4 years for resisting authority and damage by fire), followed by those of Enzo Di Giovanni (3 years and 8 months for damage, looting and resistance) and Valerio Atzei (3 years) .

Six other defendants comply with a sentence of one and a half years in prison, while the tenth of the accused has been sentenced to one year imprisonment.