Arriving in Bavaria on Monday to support their team, which faces Bayern Munich in the round of 16 of the Champions League this Tuesday evening, Lazio Rome supporters stood out for a very bad reason.
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In a Munich beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus, where Adolf Hitler announced the official program of the Nazi Party during a meeting with 2,000 people on February 24, 1920, Roman fans repeated Nazi salutes and sang fascist songs.
Around 100 Lazio fans at the Hofbräuhaus brewery in Munich ahead of their match against Bayern Munich tonight.
It is the same venue where Hitler founded the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1920. pic.twitter.com/PQYoQ9yTxE
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An investigation was opened this Tuesday by the German police.
The perpetrators of these actions are being sought.
In another video, published on the Instagram account of the daily La Repubblica, we can also see Lazio supporters singing a particularly disgusting song, in praise of the Black Shirts, the militia of Benito Mussolini's regime.
“We don’t care about the prison, the Blackshirts will triumph,” we can hear.
If they do not triumph, it will be a mess with batons and grenades.
Duce!
Duce!
Duce!
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This is not the first time that Lazio Rome supporters have been noticed through such acts.
On March 19, during the derby against AS Roma, they also sang anti-Semitic songs.
What the club had denounced, claiming to have “always been at the forefront in publicly condemning, preventing and repressing without reservation any discriminatory, racist or anti-Semitic demonstration or action.
» In January 2023, Samuel Umtiti was also the target of racist cries on the Lazio pitch.
In 2017, these pseudo-supporters also distinguished themselves by hijacking an image of Anne Franck, displaying her with an AS Roma jersey.
“We have tried to avoid, isolate and counter these phenomena.
We will continue to do so without hesitation, to defend in Italy and abroad the image of the club, which has never had anything to do with this,” the club assured.
Obviously he doesn't succeed.