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Piantedosi: "The police forces in Naples have avoided the worst"

2023-03-16T19:55:11.582Z


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"Only thanks to the usual competence, balance and concreteness of the personnel of the State Police, the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the public safety authorities, have more serious damages to people and things been avoided, which the despicable violence of some gangs of hooligans could have caused".

Thus the interior minister

Matteo Piantedosi

on yesterday's episodes in Naples.

"Only the high professionalism, balance and courage of the forces of order has made it possible to avoid contact between the fringes of the German ultras and the violent part of the Neapolitan fans which certainly would have led to much more serious consequences".

Thus the head of the Police, Lamberto Giannini, regarding yesterday's riots in Naples, who "expresses his closeness to the personnel who have sustained injuries and thanks the women and men of the police who have been involved in the field without solution of continuity and who are still working in these hours, in Naples and in other cities".

In a piazza del Gesù illuminated by the sun and populated by tourists and by the faithful who venerate the saintly doctor, Giuseppe Moscati, buried in the church that bears his name, the pavement has been completely cleaned up.

The sweepers finished their work after the urban hygiene company vehicles removed the bulky waste, residues of the guerrilla warfare of a few hours earlier, among broken tables, cracked chairs, shards of glass and stones.

We are back to normal, but this is not the case for the traders of the premises located along Calata Trinità Maggiore heavily damaged by the ultra destructive madness.

The German fans are gone.

About 470, away from the hotel on the seafront of Naples which became their fort in a senseless war.

They were put on buses, taken to Salerno, Frosinone, Capodichino, identified to reach their respective destinations in Germany.

Eight people arrested, of which five Neapolitans and three Germans (all recipients of Daspo between 5 and 8 years), but the toll could increase;

six injured law enforcement officers, not to mention the economic damage.

In the Prefecture the emergency meeting of the committee for public order and safety.

The controversy flares up, in Rome there are those who ask that Minister Piantedosi resign or report to the Chamber. The alarms are multiplying on the risks of possible new clashes, as probably would have happened in Fiumicino, where the supporters of Lazio,

Rome and Frankfurt's Eintracht fans, who were returning to Germany after the match in Naples, were in danger of meeting each other.

The safety device prevented the various groups of ultras, with the Lazio fans heading to Holland and the Romanists heading to Spain, from coming into contact.

The supporters of the two Capitoline teams, the police explained, "wore dark-colored clothing with clothing useful for misrepresentation in the event of clashes".

As for Neapolitan fans, specials are now being observed ahead of the Serie A match Turin-Naples on Sunday at 3pm. Supporters will travel to Italy again for the first time after the two-month ban imposed by the Interior Ministry following the clashes in the 8 January on the motorway with Roma ultras, to whom the same ban was then imposed.

The risk is above all of dangerous intersections with other fans that move.

But in the meantime, the controversy over the safety device put in place yesterday in Naples is raging.

But the prefect, Claudio Palomba, defends him and underlines that there was no contact between the fans and that the decision to concentrate the German fans in Piazza del Gesu was the best since otherwise they could have dispersed in groups in the alleys and on the premises, with unpredictable consequences.

"The statements by UEFA president Ceferin are unacceptable because they start from a prejudice, as if everyone in Naples were criminals and whoever arrives here is instead a saint. It's not true, criminals are everywhere and they must be faced with the awareness that if they are not we eradicate from the dynamics of the game in the end people will not be able to move around Europe for a game", Manfredi says.

Meanwhile, the investigative work goes on, the video surveillance images are viewed to complete the identification of the participants in the clashes.

They were, underlines the commissioner Alessandro Giuliano, 48 complicated hours.

For the Eintracht managers, what happened yesterday is "violence without justification, facts that ruin football and damage us" The president of Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, asks Meloni to do like Thatcher, implement the same law in Italy that in England nipped the hooligans.

And he is trenchant about how one should behave in the stadium.

"The supporters must be absolutely healthy because families, children and adolescents go to the stadium and absolutely must not be given a round of cocaine, smoke marijuana, or show a weapon or say that after all 'we are Napoli', because this is the leitmotif of 300-400 people. These people were probably outside Maradona yesterday, living like mavericks behind the forces of the

Investigators are examining the position of the more than 400 German ultras identified between yesterday and this morning, after the riots that took place in the streets of Naples during the match against Eintracht in Frankfurt.

The police let it be known, explaining that they are evaluating their position "for subsequent reporting to the judicial authority".

At the end of the incidents, an impressive activity immediately followed which allowed the groups of German ultras to be safely removed from Naples, identifying over 400 of them. The identifications were carried out last night in Naples and Frosinone and this morning in Salerno in the police force offices without any incident occurring.

ANSA agency

Unleashed fans, Naples like a battlefield - Chronicle

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Source: ansa

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