Brindisi: riots after the Brindisi-Taranto football match. Three arrested and five reported.

The State Police, at the end of the Brindisi-Taranto football match played last Sunday, avoided direct contact between opposing fans, arresting 3 supporters of the Ionian team and reporting five, including four from the local team.

In fact, at the end of the match, which ended with the defeat of Brindisi, the Head of the public order service, in line with the instructions of the Police Commissioner Giampietro Lionetti, escorted a group of visiting fans who were traveling in about fifty cars to the exit from the city, also guaranteeing protection in the areas of greatest transit.

A first group of Taranto fans passed the intersection between the SS379 and the SS7 without any consequences, while the remaining procession, having reached that roundabout, stopped the march, creating problems for road traffic with the throwing of paper bombs and smoke bombs.

The deployment of patrols from the Police Headquarters and the contingent of the Taranto Mobile Unit was immediate, allowing the troublemakers to disperse.

DIGOS and UPGSP police managed to block four of them who had reached a nearby service station, finding paper bombs and objects capable of offending on board the vehicle. Three of them, already hit by DASPO – administrative measure applied to individuals reported for having caused or participated in disturbances during sporting events -, they were arrested and the fourth released in a state of freedom.

At the same time, other State Police patrols, having noticed the presence of a group of local ultras at the beginning of Via Appia ready to clash with the Ionian fans, they intervened immediately, causing the people of Brindisi to disperse. In the circumstance, four of them, including a minor, were reported in a state of freedom for contempt and resistance to PU, for having insulted and insulted the policemen who had found them in possession of objects that could be used as blunt instruments.

All the material found was seized by DIGOS personnel which will, in the next few days, forward to the Anti-Crime Police Division the requests for the worsening of the DASPO for those who were already burdened by it and the initiation of proceedings for the remaining reported ones.

What happened last Sunday evening certainly cannot be traced back to the values ​​of sport represented primarily in respect for the opponent and in the acceptance of defeat. Furthermore, the same families who frequent the stadium have strongly stigmatized the incident.