Closed-door matches in stadiums against regulations

If a stadium is against regulation, matches won't have public. People will be left far from stadiums not only as a measure after a crime has been ensured, but also as prevention. Visitors won't have anymore package of tickets. These are main measures after the meeting held this afternoon in Rome, in order to face security problems following the death of a policeman during match Catania-Palermo, last Friday.

After a brief introduction of undersecretary of Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, Mr. Giuliano Amato, Ministry for Internal Affairs, talked about the result of the meeting:
"Effective laws maust apply without waivers. We'll have people only in the stadiums which are by law: until now, first priority was the sport event, then law and order: we need to change things. So, where stadiums are against regulations, there will be only clsed-door matches. We also have to take other decisions, next Wednesday in an extraordinary council of ministers: sell of packages of tickets to visitors will cease, of course everybody will be able to buy tickets anyway. The, the DASPO (obligation for violents to sign in police stations during football matches) could be also a preventing measure and will also involve underage people. And they won't be only obliged to sign, but also will have to do some social work."

Minister of Sport, Giovanna Melandri: "Measures are severe and have no demagogy, we'll pass a decree law for the short period and other laws for medium and long period. These ones have to change radically the system, public property of stadiums and law and order management has be different: clubs will co-operate and there will be a conspicous number of stewards. Clubs will have more responsability, we want a suspension of relationships (economic, financial and occupational) between clubs and organized groups of fans. We also will create an observatory about communication in sport, we need everybody's help."

President of CONI, Gianni Petrucci, says thanks to the Government for the quick reaction. Security is our first priority, we'll be on the Government's side, we also want football to restart as soon as possible. We'll give our help to create training courses to stewards"
FIGC commissioner Pancalli confirms that football activity won't restart unless there are no security conditions. "I'm satisfied -he says- about the meeting and the choices the Government, that made good decisions. We'll co-operate and probably, if the decree law passes on Thursday, there's the possibility that next weekend championships will start again".

Well, let's consider this meeting as a first step, but we want to point out that these decisions come after a man's death. If he was still alive, we'd never had this meeting. And of course to have stadiums by law helps, but it's not enough to avoid riots: we have to repress first, then change our sport culture, the hoolingans culture has to disappear in favour of football fans culture. And we'd also like to know if clubs subscribers will be refunded if they won't be able to follow a match. People that just want to see a football match have already been damaged, we hope they won't be anymore.