It happens to Sora but it could happen anywhere. It happens in the silence, indifference and complacency of too many. Fortunately not for everyone. Thirty-eight Juventus fans were reached by a document informing them that the Frosinone Police Headquarters is investigating – and will most likely impose the same number of Daspo on them – for “facts” that occurred last year, during the Eccellenza Laziale match between Sora and Vigor Perconti. On that occasion the authorities prohibited supporters from letting in “very dangerous” scarves with the words “Be wary”, because – according to them – they incited violence. Not the first time this has happened, highlighting an incredible and unjustified fury towards the Lazio ultras, not only creating unjustified tensions, but nullifying what should be a normal and serene “relationship” between those responsible for public order and the fans, possibly aimed at easing superficial critical issues and establishing at least a temporary dialogue. After all, the main aim should always be one: to encourage the orderly influx and outflow of the public, avoid the risk of accidents and, if necessary, take measures in cases of violence or disorder. In these circumstances, however, what is evident is something completely different and is probably summarized in the Italian language by two words: repression and retaliation. The response of the Curva Nord was peaceful but decisive: to stay outside the sector and cheer from there for what the fans considered an absurd imposition, also by virtue of the disparity in treatment with the visiting fans of any team, who at the Tomei as in most Italian stadiums (rightly) they have always introduced material in solidarity with the children affected by Daspo. The problem therefore seems not to be a particular taboo topic but seems to be a personal and prejudicial issue towards the Sorani. A year later, a blow that is as absurd as it is unjustified seems to be on the way. The motivations? This is what we read in the document delivered by the authorities:
“From the judicial police documents drawn up by the staff on duty there and sent to the competent AG, it emerges that, before the match, a large group of local fans, near the Curva Nord access gate, gathered to carry out an action of protest, incitement and praise for violence, in order to contest the refusal to introduce and wear scarves and sweatshirts bearing the word “Be Wary” within that sector, to be exhibited and display an unauthorized choreography. During this protest, the aforementioned supporters, taking advantage of their numerical strength clearly superior to that of the police personnel present and, favored by the intimidating force that arises from being part of a group, decided not to attend the race and not to comply with the orders legitimately instructed by the police to desist in this attitude, displaying deliberately provocative conduct, defiance and rebellion towards the bodies of the State, towards which they addressed abusive phrases and outrageous chants, also attempting physical contact. They also ordered those who had already entered the Curva Nord sector to come out and take part in the ongoing protest, which lasted for the entire duration of the match in the area surrounding the sports facility”.
In the eyes of those who are not familiar with the dynamics and facets of typhus, especially Soran typhus, from these lines it may seem truthful that that day the Lazio city was at the mercy of the violence of a horde of uncivilized rowdies. We even talk about “physical contact”. When, even by viewing the videos relating to that afternoon, one understands how everything can be downgraded to a simple and peaceful demonstration on the outside of the curve. We talk about defiance and rebellion towards the organs of the State, but if we want to reverse it we have to ask whether it is normal for an offshoot of the State to spend time, money and resources to open and conduct investigations into scarves and sweatshirts bearing anything but violent writings, worn inside a facility of the fifth national football division. Reading in depth, even between the lines, a sad consideration of the boys with the scarf around their neck emerges, closer to that of a subject than of a normal citizen. A subject who “must follow orders”, as if we all lived in barracks. We are talking about a reality that in recent years has never created major problems in terms of public order, becoming fundamental both for the city and for the support of the team, so much so as to aggregate and grasp the closeness of the non-“ultras” public. In this sense, the statement with which Sora Calcio expresses maximum solidarity towards the North is not accidental, highlighting how on that day of February 12th one year ago there was no violence or provocation, inside or outside the stands .
It seems quite clear that these punishments, arriving more than a year late, are more specious than anything else, aimed at eliminating or silencing an aggregative movement, which over the years has brought more and more young people to the city. The prevention and possible punishment of stadium crimes is one thing, but the desire to transform the stadium into a free zone (yes, I use an expression so dear to the press, but I reverse the meaning) where it is possible to abuse, ruining light-heartedly lives and criminal records of boys and girls just because, arbitrarily and without using violence, they decided to respond to a childish ban by standing outside the curve, supporting their own colors from there. Furthermore, there would be yet another consideration to be made on the anti-democratic and anti-constitutionality of the Daspo, an instrument that is imposed without an immediate right to defense (except for the defensive writings often and quickly rejected by the investigating judge who does not even have the time and the desire to pay attention to it), giving unlimited possibility to the police bodies to write any type of accusation, being then the ones who apply the sanction. Often, as we well know, everything ends sensationally at the TAR with trials won after years, despite the warning – with all that it entails on one’s personal freedom – having been entirely discounted. Another legitimate question: but even if some violent behavior had occurred, thirty-eight fans were the protagonists without the local and national media even noticing in the slightest? Or, as always, did we attack the most active ones, without even worrying about what was happening but with the sole intent of destroying the organized part of the supporters? This gives rise to another consideration, now unknown when it comes to stadiums: individual responsibility. For some years now, fans have been punished outright, with mass punishments worthy of the most vulgar authoritarian regimes. In the total silence of the media and – except for this occasion – also of the football clubs, increasingly at the mercy of the hysteria and hypochondria of the Police Headquarters, Prefectures and Commissariats, who often prefer bans, restrictions to a normal and healthy management of public order and draconian punishments.
If, as it seems, the warnings reach the Juventus fans, the North will count almost fifty kids affected by Daspo. A number, to say the least, disproportionate, with news events from recent years in hand. Be careful: no one here is making the ultras look like saints and the state apparatus as executioners. But the inequity between cause and effect is obvious!
Simone Meloni
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2024-03-21 11:29:19
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