Football fan killed by police in Italy but claims their action as a mistake

stanleyuroy · 11-12-2007, 01:06 PM

we all know accidents do happen but how on earth could professionally trained police gun down a fan?Though we all also know of what holigans can do and have been doing,but my question is why did the police use live bullets instead of rubber bullets?

aisuru · 11-12-2007, 06:20 PM

simple. they didn't use rubber bullets because it wasn't a riot. rubber bullets are only issued to riot police for crowd control, while this incident involved two groups of people - with no colours on at the time - fighting at a motorway service station.

goldenHuddlestone · 11-12-2007, 07:18 PM

Untill we know the full details we can neither fully castigate or justify the policemans actions

Matt the Thrasher · 11-12-2007, 08:08 PM

what i heard on the radio last night was , the incident involved just 2 cars full of supporters , one car had Juventus supporters & the other Lazio , the policeman claimed he fired into the air but the fan who was killed was actually sitting in a car , does seem very heavy handed to say the least using firearms at such a minor incident

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11-12-2007, 06:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
aisuru Admin Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Village Posts: 3,826 vCash: 726	simple. they didn't use rubber bullets because it wasn't a riot. rubber bullets are only issued to riot police for crowd control, while this incident involved two groups of people - with no colours on at the time - fighting at a motorway service station.

11-12-2007, 07:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
goldenHuddlestone Admin Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5,656 vCash: 480	Untill we know the full details we can neither fully castigate or justify the policemans actions