Derby, anti-Semitic choirs in the north curve: the FIGC opens an investigation

ROME – The shame of the derby ends up on the table of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. After the article by Republic which signaled the racist chants that rained on the derby from the curves of Rome and Lazio, the sports judge asked the investigating body of the Football Federation to add to the investigation: in the viewfinder, the celebrations of the north curve, with the cry “in the synagogue go pray” used to taunt rivals with clear anti-Semitic intent.

The soft sanction at the Roma curve

The judge had sanctioned the Roma defender Radu with a ridiculous fine of just 5,000 euros for a fight with Rui Patricio. Dismissing them as “vulgar” choirs: yet the racist, discriminating matrix was evident. And in fact just a year ago a similar choir had cost the Roma curve the closure of the sector suspended with a one-year conditional (just expired on November 2). But even more happened at the end of the game. Because the Lazio curve has repeated many times a fierce choir that goes like this: “Go to the synagogue to pray … Romanist, vaff …”. An obvious anti-Semitic religious discrimination.

The anti-Semitic chorus of the Lazio curve celebrating the derby won with Roma

The investigation into the anti-Semitic choirs of Lazio

The fact is that both choirs had been reported by the Federal Prosecutor in their report after the match to the sports judge. Which, however, had decided to sanction – and blandly, we have said – only that of the Romanists. Now, the Judge has asked for an investigation supplement for that Lazio choir. He wants a detailed investigation that defines the perceptibility of the choirs, from which sector they started, how long they lasted. In short, he wants to understand if they are punishable or not. Choirs sung by a whole curve – over 7 thousand people – and for a long time, during the celebrations and with the team cheering under the sector. The official investigation will start tomorrow morning: it won’t take long to explain to the judge what it was.

The condemnation by Lazio

Lazio, after the news of the opening of an investigation, published a statement. In which he points out that his players celebrated unaware of what was happening above them, but firmly and convinced distancing themselves from those shameful choirs: “The Lazio Sports Society has always condemned with the utmost firmness any expression of anti-Semitism and racism which now manifest themselves in almost all matches and in all stadiums in Italy. They are not part of our culture and do not represent our fans. We have always demonstrated this with facts, not just words, and we will continue to support it with We would like to underline that our members went under the curve at the end of Rome – Lazio to thank the fans for their support and rejoice in a well-deserved victory, certainly not to legitimize any choirs of some groups, not even included and certainly not shared. . Similar behaviors have nothing to do with sport or with common sense of civic duty. Faced with these manifestations of ignorance, the Company Sportiva Lazio will always be on the opposite side: that of respect for people, their culture, their ethnicity, their faith and their dignity “.