A battle where more than 300 fans of Rome Y Naples in a service area near Arezzo -center- caused chaos on the A1 motorway, as a part of it had to be closed and a 14-kilometer traffic jam was formed.
A Romanist, slightly wounded
The clashes, in which a Romanist fan was slightly wounded by a knife and had to be hospitalized, took place near the Badia Al Pino service area, at kilometer 364 of the highway between Milan -north- and Naples -south – and the same one. where he died Gabriele Sandrifan of lazioin 2007, local media reported.
According to initial reconstructions, problems appeared around 1:00 pm local time (several vans of fans of Rome they passed in front of the area where the police had set up a rest area for a caravan of more than 30 vehicles with Neapolitan fans traveling to watch the league game their team played against Sampdoria.
Rocks and smoke bombs
From the Neapolitan ‘caravan’, stones and smoke bombs were thrown at the vans, causing a reaction of about 150 Romanistas, who stopped their cars on the shoulder and walked towards the service area, where the clashes began , according to both sources.
Arezzo Police Headquarters, the nearest town to the scene, said the clashes were due to an ambush by a group of followers of Naples to those of Romethat goes to Milan.
The rivalry between the two fans has intensified since 2014, after the death of the Neapolitan fan ciro espositoshot dead before the Coppa Italia final in between Naples Y Fiorentina played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
The fight led to the closure of a section of the motorway, causing up to 14 kilometers of traffic jams on the A1 between Monte San Savino and Arezzo, which has since reopened, while police identify those involved.
Source: La Verdad
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