Wave of Violence after Italian Fan Shooting

World | November 12, 2007, Monday // 00:00
Wave of Violence after Italian Fan Shooting Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey from Rome, was a Lazio fan on his way to a match with Inter Milan. photo by Getty Images

Italian football fans have reacted violently inside and outside stadiums following the police shooting of a Lazio supporter, BBC reported.

Gabriele Sandri, 26, was shot in what police called a "tragic error" as they tried to stop violence between rival fans at a motorway stop in Tuscany.

A match between Atalanta and AC Milan was stopped as fans and police clashed. There was violence at other games.

Later hundreds of fans rampaged in Rome and there were more protests in Milan.

Police chiefs, politicians and football administrators will be meeting on Monday to seek to limit the damage from the weekend's incidents.

The worst violence was in the capital, where hundreds of armed fans attacked a police barracks and the Italian Olympic Committee headquarters.

Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey from Rome, was a Lazio fan on his way to a match with Inter Milan.

Lazio fans and supporters of Juventus on their way to a match at Parma reportedly clashed at the service station near Arezzo.

Sandri was apparently shot while in a car outside the motorway restaurant.

Police suggested he may have been killed by a warning shot.
The exact details of the shooting are unclear and an investigation is under way.

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