VIOLENCE: CABINET MEETING WEDNESDAY Monday, 05 February 2007 20:23:57 ROME (ANSA) - Italian authorities on Monday unveiled a package of measures against soccer hooliganism following Friday's death of 38-year-old police officer Filippo Raciti in Catania. The measures are expected to be approved at an extraordinary cabinet meeting Wednesday, in time to get Serie A started again next Sunday. The quick re-start to the championship will please clubs and TV stations worried about the financial impact of the indefinite stadium closure announced at the weekend. "We have enough time, technically, to resume play on Sunday," said Soccer Federation special commissioner Luca Pancalli (pictured). "I know it may appear unacceptable to think of soccer without crowds but I think it far less acceptable that someone should die for (soccer)," said Amato, who agreed the crackdown at an emergency meeting with Pancalli, Sports Minister Giovanna Melandri and Italian Olympic Committee President (CONI) Gianni Petrucci. The clampdown will rigidly enforce wide-ranging reforms launched in 2003 by then Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu but never fully applied. Less than half Serie A grounds comply with the Pisanu stipulations, which are largely based on England's successful fight against hooliganism in the 1980s. New measures include a ban on indiscriminate sales of tickets to travelling fans, setting up a special corps of stewards, and getting known hooligans to perform public services or even swill out stadium toilets while they are serving match-day bans. Troublemakers will be banned from entering grounds even if there is no firm grounds for suspecting they are about to commit offences, Amato said. This measure will be extended for the first time to minors. The new package will also enforce a ban on relations between clubs and groups of hard-core fans. "We have to say no to the mindless and criminal law of thuggery," Amato said. CABINET TO GREENLIGHT MEASURES WEDNESDAY. On Wednesday the cabinet is expected to greenlight the revamped Pisanu package, which increased the use of video surveillance inside grounds and introduced numbered tickets with the buyers' name on to make it easier to detect hooligans. It also stipulated a series of modifications to the stadiums to make them more secure and easier to police. It is now obligatory, for example, for stadiums to have turnstiles in order to prevent known hooligans and fans without tickets from sneaking in. The Pisanu measure also increased stadium bans and raised jail sentences for hooliganism to a maximum of four and a half years. The decree also bolstered the role of club stewards to encourage Italian fans to police themselves more. Offences against them were put on a par with those against the police. CONI will now provide the funds to set up a corps of stewards to take over many policing duties, Petrucci said. The 2005 rules allowed arrests up to 36 hours after an offence. This will now be extended to 48 hours.
在周五卡塔尼亚一名38岁的警官菲利普-拉奇蒂死亡之后,意大利权威人士周一透露了一个针对足球流氓的解决办法。该办法将在周三的一次特别内阁会议上被核准,以期在下周日重新开始意甲联赛。 联赛的快速重新恢复将使俱乐部和电视台满意,此前他们担心上周末宣布的不确定的体育场关闭行动会影响他们的财政。 足球联盟特别委员卢卡-潘卡利(图中)说:“从技术上说,我们有足够的时间来在周日恢复比赛。”在紧急会议上和潘卡利、体育部长乔瓦娜-梅兰德里以及意大利奥委会主席(CONI)詹尼-佩特鲁奇意见相同的阿马托说:“我知道如果不允许观众进场将不被接受,但我认为如果有人因(足球)而丧生会更加不被接受。” 该措施将严格执行2003年由当时的内政部长朱塞佩-皮萨努提出,但并未全部应用的大规模改革的建议。只有不到一半的意甲球场遵守了皮萨努的约束,此规定是基于20世纪80年代英格兰的成功制止足球流氓的法案制定的。 新办法包括禁止不加选择的将球票卖给客场球迷,成立特殊的服务部门,以及让足球流氓在公众面前曝光,或者让他们在比赛日中打扫球场厕所。制造麻烦的人将被禁止进入球场,即使没有确凿的证据证明他们将做出不合法的举动,阿马托说。 该办法将被用于首犯的的未成年人。这个新办法将同时对俱乐部和球迷的领袖实施禁赛。阿马托说:“我们应该对粗心大意和暗中犯罪的人说不。” 内阁将在周三批准这项法案。 周三内阁将对皮萨努的法案做出进一步的完善,法案还规定在体育场内增加视频监控的力度,以及引用有限的记名球票,以便更加容易发现足球流氓。法案同时规定了一系列的对于体育场修正方案,以使它们对于警察来说更加安全和容易。目前这是必须的,例如,在体育场门口安装十字转门,以防止已知的足球流氓和无票球迷混入球场。皮萨努的办法还包括,体育场增加禁令并对足球流氓最高处以4年半的铁窗生涯。法令还支持了俱乐部督促意大利球迷更大程度上保护自己的角色,袭击球迷的行为将等同于袭击警察的行为。佩特鲁奇说,意大利奥委会将支持成立特殊服务部门接管许多的警察义务的意见。 2005年的法令允许将犯罪嫌疑人拘留36小时,现在将延长至48小时。 |