In the stands, a Lazio fan wears the shirt of his favorite team. The name Hitlerson stands out on his shoulders, accompanied by the number 88 - clearly Nazi in origin -, while the northern curve intones the umpteenth anti-Semitic chants that too often resound in Italian stadiums and not only at the Olimpico.

Yesterday's derby in the Capital brings with it a long trail of controversy, born from the post of the president of the Jewish community of Rome, Ruth Dureghello, who published videos and photos of what happened. The Minister of Sport himself, Andrea Abodi, intervened and announced measures. «Impossible to pretend nothing happened – his reply on Twitter -. I will do my part, as I feel I have to do. Respect is due and is not negotiable." And the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, has also taken the initiative, urging the police chief, Lamberto Giannini, and the Rome commissioner, Carmine Belfiore, to invite them to make every effort to identify those responsible for anti-Semitic behaviour. The photos and videos of Hitlerson's shirt soon made the rounds on the web, sparking a flurry of criticism and controversy. «As always we are the only ones to get indignant and protest - Dureghello's words -. Is it possible that everyone continues to pretend nothing has happened?». In fact, Nazi-fascist symbols or images linked to the football theme have appeared several times in the city. The latest episode took place just a couple of months ago when, on the eve of Memorial Day, the capital woke up plastered with stickers representing Hitler's drawing with Roma's yellow and red shirt. An "unacceptable disfigurement", as the mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, had stigmatized, then having the stickers removed. The prefect Giuseppe Pecoraro, the new national coordinator for the fight against anti-Semitism, also spoke about what happened yesterday in the stands of the Olimpico.

«The chants against the Jewish world that have been heard in stadiums these days - he said - are to be harshly condemned. They are to be severely sanctioned and those responsible must be identified. Otherwise, an intervention is also necessary on the clubs for which they are rooting for » .

The Anpi, on the other hand, said it was ready for "a criminal action for propaganda and instigation to commit a crime on grounds of racial, ethnic and religious discrimination". "It is time for exemplary measures by the federal prosecutor's office and for courageous investigations and sentences by the judiciary", thunders the president of the partisans, Gianfranco Pagliarulo. Among the Lazio fans themselves, there are many who distance themselves from what happened, even if many have relaunched on social media the homophobic offenses that the Roma cousins would have leveled yesterday at the derby. At the entrance to the Curva Nord, in fact, some rainbow stickers appeared with the words "Lgbt, Lazio, gay, bisex, trans".

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