Shameful banner to incite the bombing of the Campania capital. Unanimous chorus of condemnations
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VERONA (3-4-2-1): Montipó, Ceccherini, Gunter, Sutalo, Faraoni, Tameze (44’st Tameze), Ilic (44’st Hongla), De Paoli (37’pt Bessa), Barak (44’st Chancellors), Caprari, Simeone. All .: Tudor.
NAPLES (4-3-3): Ospina, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Koulibaly, Mario Rui, Anguissa, Lobotka, Fabian (44’st Zielinski), Politano (17’st Elmas) Osimhen (44’st Petagna, 48’st Ghoulam ), Lozano (17’st Insigne). Coach: Spalletti.
REFEREE: Duties of Rome.
NETWORKS: 13 ‘pt e 26’st Osimhen, 32’ st Faraoni.
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The insults, the choruses, the racist chants, the discriminatory expressions or writings were no longer enough. The war unleashed by Russia has given a new, dramatic inspiration to the Verona fans to express their hatred towards Naples a few hours after the match at the Bentegodi between the two teams, won by Napoli with a brace from Osimhen: a banner displayed in the night outside the stadium and signed ‘Curva Sud’ with the flags of Russia and Ukraine and a series of numbers representing the coordinates of Naples, a sort of indication to ‘hit the city.
A “shameful and repugnant” gesture for the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, “serious and unjustifiable” for the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini – but unanimous reactions of condemnation came from all political forces – and strongly rejected by the CEO of Lega Serie A, Luigi De Siervo, and also from the yellow and blue club.
Several parties have asked for measures against the perpetrators, to be identified, but the federal prosecutor of the FIGC has its hands tied on the case, which will instead act for the racist chants heard at the stadium during the match between Hellas and Naples. The investigators of the FIGC – it is pointed out from via Allegri – can do nothing about the sign of shame, which appeared in an area where the sports justice code cannot be applied for any sanctions because it is far from the pertinences of the stadium.
Among the first, and the most acute, to comment, the writer Maurizio De Giovanni, who on Fb underlined «the refined, intelligent and geographical banner of the Veronese curve, which gives the Russian-Ukrainian missiles the location of the target. For the uninitiated, these are the coordinates of my city. Always admirably ready to grasp elements of close relevance to renew their deep racist idiocy. Just to make us understand with a plastic example at what point (sub) human imbecility can arrive, and how, in a brain that is too narrow, very serious and nonsense things can mix ”, concludes De Giovanni. The silence from Verona was broken only close to the match, when the club issued a condemnation note against “any act, gesture and utterance that could generate, in any form and measure, incitement to hatred, violence and discrimination “.