Police identify 16 Lazio fans behind Anne Frank photos
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Italian police have identified 16 people believed to be involved in posting anti-Semitic pictures of Anne Frank in an AS Roma jersey during a football game, according to media reports yesterday.
Police examined video footage of Sunday night’s Serie A game between Lazio and Cagliari at the Stadio Olimpico when home fans defaced glass barriers with anti-Semitic graffiti and images of Frank.
The Jewish teenager, who died in Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 1945, was depicted wearing a jersey of their hated city rivals.
Three of those identified are underage — two aged between 16 and 17 years and a third aged 13. They are being investigated for inciting racial hatred.
The images have whipped up a storm in Italian football with the Roman club announcing it also intends to take youth every year to visit the former Nazi camp at Auschwitz, in Poland.
The Italian football federation announced that a minute’s silence would be held and a passage from Frank’s diary will be read before games in Italy this week.
On Tuesday night copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank” were handed out to child mascots accompanying Inter Milan and Sampdoria players onto the pitch at the San Siro.
Lazio’s main fan group slammed the “media theater” yesterday and said it would not be travelling to Bologna later in the day for the teams’ Serie A match.
“The ‘Irriducibili Lazio’ are forced to renounce their trip to Bologna to avoid being complicit in this media theater of recent hours,” the group wrote on Facebook.
Lazio President Claudio Lotito, who laid a floral wreath at the Rome Synagogue to remember victims of anti-Semitism, slammed the behavior of “idiots” but insisted a points deduction “would be wrong”.
Lazio had already been given a two-match closure of the north end of the Stadio Olimpico for racist chanting.
The only team to have beaten reigning champion Juventus in the league this season, Lazio is fourth in Serie A just ahead of Roma, which it will meet in the Rome derby on November 18.
On Tuesday, Mauro Icardi scored a double as Inter went top of Serie A with a 3-2 win over Sampdoria in Milan.
The hosts led 3-0 after 54 minutes with Slovak Milan Skriniar opening after 18 minutes against his former club with another ex-Sampdoria man Icardi adding to his tally on 32 and 54 minutes for 11 league goals this season.
Inter goes provisionally top after its eighth win in 10 games gave it 26 points — one more than Napoli which can reclaim top spot when it was traveling to Genoa yesterday.
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