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	LAZIE/ROMA (sospesa all'inizio del 2° tempo sullo 0-0) *Stadio Olimpico* *21 marzo 2004* *ore 20.30* invia una e-mail per i resoconti
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Come una leggenda metropolitana viene superata da una leggenda metropolitana più grande
NASCITA DI UN MOSTRO Gli incidenti di Lazio-Roma sono stati un mix di tante cose: tensione, tifosi violenti, impreparazione delle forze dell'ordine, gas lacrimogeni vietati. Tutto è iniziato intorno alle 17.30 quando un gruppo di tifosi, sembra, ha tentato di sfondare i cancelli per entrare. La reazione delle forze dell'ordine è stata da manuale di antiguerriglia, l'unico problema è che questa carica ha avuto l'effetto analogo del buttare la benzina sul fuoco.
Il gruppo di tifosi "belligerante", inizialmente piccolo, è aumentato a dismisura e vi è quindi stata una escalation divenuta incontrollabile. Da una parte gli ultras, quasi tutti travisati, che lanciavano torce, bombe carta ed oggetti di ogni tipo, dall'altra i finanzieri, i poliziotti ed in carabinieri che caricavano a più non posso per cercare di respingere e disperdere gli ultras. Dov'è che si inceppa il meccanismo? Si inceppa quando vengono coinvolte le persone che non c'entrano nulla. Sorrido quando sento che chi non c'entra non viene toccato. Non è così. All'Olimpico si è verificato, sotto questo profilo, ciò che accadde a Genova per il G8. Gli arrestati, i feriti tra i tifosi sono quelli che non c'entrano. Sono quelli che quando imboccano il viale che dall'obelisco porta alla palla non guardano dove sono collocati i plotoni di celerini in assetto antisommossa, come ogni ultras fa, sapendo che loro sono il vero pericolo. E quindi, come mosche, rimangono intrappolati nella ragnatela, e l'unica loro speranza è quella del tipo "se alzo le mani e mi metto di lato non mi fanno nulla". Niente di più sbagliato. Verrai picchiato da una decina di agenti con i manganelli tenuti al contrario. Se sei fortunato, ti faranno parecchio male e ti lasceranno andare. Se sei sfortunato, ti arresteranno - perché bisogna per forza arrestare qualcuno no? - ed il giorno dopo al processo per direttissima diranno al giudice che sei stato sicuramente tu a lanciare quel sasso, o a ribellarti all'arresto. Anzi, ecco come ti sei fatto male: per sfuggire al giusto, meritato arresto.
L'esperto della guerriglia non viene arrestato. E' raro che ciò avvenga. Conosce alla perfezione i luoghi, conosce perfettamente come ragionano gli agenti, sa in anticipo quali saranno le loro mosse. E se viene arrestato, sa che in fondo fa parte delle regole del gioco. Ma le donne picchiate, i signori che guardano con speranza l'agente prima che gli venga sferrato un colpo, quelli non sanno nulla. Ma allora, se così stanno le cose, emerge con prepotenza l'incapacità di affrontare situazioni come queste. La mia critica è rivolta unicamente al fatto che ci siano persone innocenti che vengono coinvolte in modo brutale. L'unico effetto positivo che questo sortisce è quello che il collaboratoire di Biscardi ha riferito alla fine della sua imbarazzante testimonianza: "prima di questo episodio non avrei mai pensato che potessero accadere cose del genere. E' una lotta tra delinquenti".
Vediamo come la stampa nazionale ha commentato i fatti, cerchiamo di capire - forti della nostra esperienza di curva e dell'aver vissuto il derby sul serio e non dietro uno schermo TV - quali sono i giornali faziosi e quali quelli più seri. Verifichiamo i giornalisti professionali e i quaraquaqua.
Per la nostra memoria futura.

22 marzo 2004, il giorno dopo

Testata	Titolo prima pagina	Voto e commento al titolo	Foto prima pagina (clicca per ingrandire)
	Arriva una falsa voce: "bimbo ucciso dalla polizia". Scoppia il caos. Lazio-Roma interrotta. Galliani: l'ho deciso io. Derby sospeso, ore di guerriglia Giallo all'Olimpico: c'è il sospetto di un piano preordinato. Tensione, paura, scontri, feriti e arresti.	8,5 Il titolo rispecchia più o meno quanto accaduto. Altre cronache de "Il Messaggero"
	Prefetto e questore ipotizzano un piano degli ultrà. Incidenti e feriti. Interrogati l'arbitro e i capitani Tifosi in rivolta, non si gioca	8 Il titolo è tutto sommato neutro.
	"E' morto un bimbo", e i giocatori di Lazio e Roma si fermano per le pressioni dei tifosi. Scontri fuori dallo stadio. Prefetto e Questore temono un piano preordinato. Sentiti Totti e Mijajlovic Notizia falsa all'Olimpico, sospeso il derby	8 Vedi sopra Altre cronache di Repubblica
	Inaudito all'Olimpico: il derby sospeso dopo irresponsabili voci alimentate dagli ultrà Roma, ore 22: il calcio chiude	5 Più che per il titolo, è per il cappello che definisce "irreponsabili" le voci. "False ma ritenute vere" sarebbe stata la dizione più corretta.
Il Corriere dello Sport	Voce falsa: <<C'è un morto>>. Le curve chiedono lo stop e Galliani fa sospendere il derby Lazio-Roma choc Prefetto e Questore accusano: Poteva essere una tragedia	8 Titolo neutro, non merita di più perché non c'è una riga per le giustificazioni dei tifosi
Tuttosport	A Roma bruciano il derby Incidenti, scontri con la polizia, poi la voce smentita della morte di un bambino: partita sospesa	6 Il titolo mi sembra fuori luogo, anche se il sottotitolo è corretto.
L'Unità	Leggenda metropolitana blocca la partita Lazio-Roma sospesa: ultrà diffondono voci di un bambino ucciso dalla polizia. Scontri all'Olimpico	8 Sarebbe stato il titolo più giusto, se il sottotitolo non avesse rovinato tutto mettendo la parola "ultrà" al posto di "tifosi"
Il Tempo	Il derby dura solo un tempo. La voce, falsa, dell'uccisione di un bimbo scatena la guerriglia. I tifosi delle curve impongono la sospensione della gara. Calciatori e Galliani ubbidiscono. Calcio, ultima follia	5 Troppo polemico e poco sensibile nel capire cosa è realmente successo
Il Mattino	"Morto un bambino", ma è falso: derby sospeso L'incredibile stop di Lazio-Roma per notizie non vere diffuse dagli ultrà	5 Il titolo è corretto, il sottotitolo non tiene conto del contesto in cui si è sviluppata la notizia.
Il Giornale	Gli ultrà fanno saltare il derby di Roma. Scontri nella capitale La falsa notizia della morte di un ragazzo costringe a sospendere la partita	5 Troppo fazioso, non tiene conto del contesto e della volontà popolare nata dopo la notizia ritenuta vera.
La Stampa	Scontri con la polizia, poi il tam-tam fra i tifosi. Inutile smentita con l'altoparlante nell'intervallo. Il prefetto Serra: rischiata la tragedia Giallo all'Olimpico: sospesa Lazio-Roma Falsa voce: ucciso un bimbo. Le squadre rifiutano di giocare	10 Il miglior titolo in assoluto ed i migliori cappelli e sottotitoli.
Controcampo	Sospesa Lazio-Roma La grande paura Il derby fermato dalla notizia di un dramma. Smentita. I tifosi delle due curve, convinti che un incidente abbia causato una vittima, condizionano i giocatori. Il presidente della Lega Galliani decide di rinviare la partita. Il prefetto Serra: "un' inchiesta per capire i meccanismi di un fatto gravissimo e premeditato". Poi, attorno allo stadio, il caos	10 Anche in questo caso, titolo eccellente che fotografa la situazione

Giornalisti:

*Giornalista, giornale e titolo*	*Articolo*	*Commento*
Piero Mei (Il Messaggero) Ora il calcio diventa un'angoscia (prima pagina)		Filo questura, accetta la ricostruzione dei fatti che gli è stata fornita senza farsi troppe domande. 5
Enrico Maida (Il Messaggero) Se al potere vanno gli ultrà (prima pagina)		Inizia male, e credo che scivoli nel patetico e nel creato, ma poi si riprende e dà un giusto tenore all'articolo, senza comunque approfondire troppo. Potrebbe meritare mezzo voto in più ma il titolo (che non viene scritto dal giornalista ma dal caporedattore) non lo consente perché rispecchia poco il contenuto 6,5
Marco De Martino (Il Messaggero) (prima pagina sport)		8,5 E' un cronista, e scrive in modo obiettivo quello che vede.

ESTERO:
ROME (AP) — Police arrested 15 people during clashes with fans after the Rome soccer derby between Lazio and AS Roma was suspended following a false rumour that a boy had been killed by police outside the stadium.
Police spokesman Mario Russo said 153 policemen were injured and the ANSA news agency reported that 14 fans were hurt during the night. All of the injured were released from the hospital by Monday morning.
Police reiterated repeatedly that nobody was killed — including announcements on the Stadio Olimpico public address system during the Sunday night match.
Roma captain Francesco Totti and Lazio defender Sinisa Mihajlovic, along with match officials, were questioned by police after midnight to try and determine what exactly happened and how the rumour started.
As the second half began, most of fans at one end of the stadium — Lazio’s end — began chanting “murderers” at the police and demanded that the game be stopped because they claimed police had run over a boy outside the stadium.
Referee Roberto Rosetti suspended the game for “reasons of public order,” perhaps fearing an invasion of the field by fans.
Outside the stadium, fans set small fires and police in riot gear battled with unruly fans, who hurled paving stones and flares.

THE GUARDIAN (UK)
Chinese whispers, a phantom death, and a riot

Why was the Roma derby called off? James Richardson investigates another low for Italian football

Tuesday March 23, 2004
Rome, Sunday night. (source AP)
These Romans are crazy. Sunday night's Rome derby has become headline fodder across Europe for all the wrong reasons, as essentially the first football match ever halted by a game of Chinese whispers.
The sport that ploughed merrily on in the face of 9/11, the Madrid bombings and even the 39 dead at Heysel, ground to a halt this time thanks to talk that police had killed a young fan outside the ground, a rumour that was as false as it was fast-spreading. Two days later, more and more people are convinced it was a premeditated move.
"I don't understand why we didn't continue the match," says Lazio's president Ugo Longo. "The stadium was calm, the police had given the all clear."
"I told the referee to continue" confirms Rome's chief constable, Achille Serra. "But the players didn't want to. Then (League president) Galliani called from Milan, and convinced the ref to call the game off."
And here's government minister Roberto Maroni: "It's incredible that Galliani, a gentleman 600 kilometres away, took this decision without even speaking to the chief of police - who was standing next to the referee. Either everyone's gone crazy, or someone's up to something..."
Before we delve into what that something might be, let's savour for a moment the surreal scene at the Olimpico, one minute into the second half. Francesco Totti, arguably Italian football's most important player, is beckoned to by three shady-looking types who have materialised behind one of the goals. They are capo-tifosi, leaders of the hardcore support, and the Roma captain walks obediently over to hear what they have to say.
"Francé, go and stop the game" one tells him. "The police have killed a boy, the match must not continue."
"But they've just said on the tannoy that the rumour isn't true," replies a worried looking Totti.
"Not true? I saw it happen myself," interjects another. "The parents of the boy called us from their home. Now go and tell the others not to play," insists a third. Totti looks down and nods, then heads back onto the pitch. "If we play, these guys will massacre us!" he tells his manager, Fabio Capello.
Until that point, the only disruption had been three flares thrown on the pitch. Afterwards, all hell broke loose. Lazio and Roma fans came together outside the ground to attack the police and carabinieri in battles that continued until 1am the next morning, and left over 150 officers injured.
"Three elements make me think this was planned in advance," says police chief Serra; "We noticed strange manoeuvres among the fans at both ends of the stadium at half-time. Then, before the flares were thrown, all the flags and banners were withdrawn simultaneously from both ends. Third, these supporters saying they'd talked to the family of the non-existent victim."
Yup, something doesn't add up, and for once it's not Roma's accounts. Roberto Maroni meanwhile is looking at an even bigger picture: "I believe that this is an attempt to damage the government, connected to our battle over the football clubs' unpaid taxes," thunders the minister for welfare.
Given that the League president Galliani - the man who called off the match - is also Silvio Berlusconi's right-hand man at AC Milan, and given that Milan are Roma's rivals at the top, the conspiracy theories are set to multiply. However, what will strike observers abroad even more about this story is the ease with which the supporters were able to act.
Police have now arrested the three men who 'advised' Totti on Sunday, but it's an unusual precedent in a country where ultras usually act with impunity. In February of last year, for example, Milan's game at Torino was suspended after Torino fans were left undisturbed to riot on the edge of the pitch, while in November 2002, a Cagliari supporter ran on to the pitch and punched the visiting team's unsuspecting goalkeeper.
And this weekend there were two other major incidents besides the derby debacle: at Modena, irate fans broke into the dressing room after the final whistle after their 2-1 home loss to Reggina (manager Alberto Malesani was subsequently sacked), while in the Second Division, former Manchester United keeper Massimo Taibi was struck on the leg by a rock thrown at his team bus, prior to Atalanta's 3-1 loss at Messina.
"I'm thinking of quitting," revealed Taibi post-game. "This sport is becoming like a war."
So there you have it. The police continue their investigation, and the League have confirmed the Rome derby will be replayed, probably in April, and possibly behind closed doors. Next weekend, fans permitting, we'll be getting back to the football, with the latest on Milan's astonishing run at the top, and Perugia's late-late-comeback bid (they won at Lecce, they're five points off safety!).
See you then.

REUTERS Fans fight police after Rome derby abandoned

Sun 21 March, 2004 23:38
By James Eve
ROME, March 21 (Reuters) - Soccer fans clashed with police after the Rome "derby" match between Lazio and AS Roma was abandoned on Sunday following a false rumour that a young boy had been killed by a police car outside the Olympic Stadium.
Supporters threw flares and bottles at police who responded with tear gas during fierce clashes in the area around the stadium. Italian news agency ANSA said fans had set up barricades in the streets.
But by midnight (2300 GMT) the situation appeared to have calmed, with the area around the stadium quiet.
Police said several officers had been slightly hurt but there were no serious injuries among either fans or police.
The match was four minutes into the second half, with the score at 0-0, when a fan walked on to the pitch behind the Roma goal to interrupt the match with the rumour of the death.
Both sets of players gathered in the centre circle to discuss the situation with referee Roberto Rosetti as flares rained down on riot police positioned underneath the south stand, where the majority of Roma's supporters were sitting.
The police department of Rome quickly denied the rumour via the stadium announcer, saying it was without foundation.
After a 15-minute delay -- during which tear gas and then smoke billowed into the stadium through the exits in the south stand -- the match was abandoned.
Italian Football League president Adriano Galliani told ANSA he had ordered the referee to call off the game.
"I took the decision because I was convinced that it was impossible to play," Galliani said. "I spoke to many people who were on the pitch and I chose the least worst solution."
Galliani said he feared a pitch invasion and had been informed the players did not want to continue the game, which he had been watching on television in Milan.
He said it would be replayed.
The prefect of Rome, Nicola Cavaliere, said he was launching an investigation into the events.
"We are investigating how this happened. False information such as this can cause real damage," he said.
Lazio defender Massimo Oddo said he and his team-mates were initially confused by the situation.
"We didn't know what was happening until Francesco Totti came up to us and said: 'We are not playing because a child is dead'," said the defender.
As supporters filed out seats were ripped up and burned, while outside a guardhouse was set on fire during skirmishes between police and fans.
Roma, currently second in Serie A on 57 points were trying to close the 10-point gap with leaders AC Milan.

THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES (RUSSIA) 'Guerrilla Warfare' Erupts in Rome Between Fans, Police COMBINED REPORTS
Photo by Gregorio Borgia / AP

ROME - A highly-charged derby match between AS Roma and Lazio was sensationally called off at half-time on Sunday after a rumor spread around the Olympic Stadium that a young boy had been killed outside the ground.
Police arrested 13 people and more than 170 were injured when the match erupted into a pitched battle between police and fans.
Police denied the rumor but rioting broke out in the stands with some supporters setting fire to the seats and raining flares and bottles down upon lines of riot forces.
Police responded by firing tear gas, while outside the stadium fans set up barricades in the streets and fought a running battle that newspapers said lasted around six hours.
"It was true guerrilla warfare," one police source said.
Some 155 police officers were wounded, one with stab wounds, and 21 fans were hurt, Rome officials said.
The second half of the match was four minutes old, with the score at 0-0, when a fan walked on to the playing area behind the Roma goal to interrupt the match with the rumor of the death.
Both sets of players gathered in the centre circle to discuss the situation with referee Roberto Rosetti as flares rained down on riot police positioned underneath the south stand, where the majority of Roma's supporters were sitting.
The police department of Rome quickly denied the rumor via the stadium announcer.
After a 15-minute delay - during which tear gas and then smoke billowed into the stadium through the exits in the south stand - the match was abandoned.
After consulting with the players the referee Roberto Rosetti stopped the game for the sake of public order.
Officials feared for the safety of the 65,000 fans inside the ground as many spectators tried to escape the choking effects of tear gas which had been used to quell trouble outside the ground.
The police denied the rumor that a boy was killed after being run over by one of their patrol cars.
"No one was run over, no one died," city council spokesman Maurizio Improta, told Sky television.
One eyewitness report suggested a boy overcome by tear gas fell to the floor just as a police van was hurtling by and was later collected by an ambulance.
Some fans close to the scene are said to have drawn their own conclusions and used it as an excuse to go on the rampage.
Italian football league president Adriano Galliani, who is also vice-president of league leaders AC Milan, said he advised Rosetti to suspend play.
"I took the decision because I was convinced that the conditions had made it impossible to play on," he said.
"I spoke to many people on the pitch and I chose the safest option. Certainly, it was a difficult decision.
"I talked to Rosetti, but also with [Roma coach Fabio] Capello and [Roma director Franco] Baldini.
"I asked what truly happened and that the local council told me that reports of a young boy's death were false.
"I told the referee to suspend that match and the game will definitely be replayed.
"Why did I decide to call the match off? I had two choices and I went with the one that my conscience was telling me to go for."
Roma are second in Serie A, 10 points behind leaders Milan, while Lazio are fourth and chasing a place in next season's Champions League.

DA UN SITO CINESE Roma derby battle
SOME 155 police officers and 21 fans were wounded
when the Rome derby match between Lazio and AS
Roma erupted into a pitched battle between police and
fans late on Sunday. The match was abandoned in the
second half with the score at 0-0 after a false rumour
circulated that a young boy had been killed by a
police car outside the Olympic Stadium. Local
newspapers said the running battle lasted around six
hours.

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		DA UN SITO CINESE Roma derby battle SOME 155 police officers and 21 fans were wounded when the Rome derby match between Lazio and AS Roma erupted into a pitched battle between police and fans late on Sunday. The match was abandoned in the second half with the score at 0-0 after a false rumour circulated that a young boy had been killed by a police car outside the Olympic Stadium. Local newspapers said the running battle lasted around six hours.