US EditionDriver Dies After Italian Basketball Fans' Bus Attacked with Stones
A brick thrown by rival fans fatally injured the bus driver during a return trip from a basketball match, prompting a police investigation and condemnation from officials.
- A coach carrying Pistoia Basket supporters was attacked on a highway near Rieti, 80km north-east of Rome, and a bus driver later died of his injuries.
- Returning from a game, Pistoia Basket fans were attacked after their team won, as SRS Sebastiani Rieti fans began throwing objects at the coach, according to local media.
- A large stone smashed through the coach windscreen and struck one of the two drivers on the head, while Raffaele Marianella, 65, was seated at the front but not driving.
- Emergency services and police attended the scene following the attack, and a police investigation is under way to track down the perpetrators.
- Senior officials condemned the attack, with Italy's Sports Minister Andrea Abodi calling it a 'shocking assault' and Gianni Petrucci, president of Federbasket, pledging to work with legal authorities.
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Spectator control is much more lax for basketball than for football in Italy, which is why violent groups have turned against that sport.
A bus carrying fans of the Pistoia basketball club was attacked in Italy
One of the stones caught during the rival attack will have been found in one of the service engines carrying the crew of the winner team. The death was declared locally.
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A bus driver was killed while helping bring home fans from a second-division basketball game in Italy in an act of violence that Premier Giorgia Meloni denounced Monday as "unacceptable and insane." The post Bus Driver Killed With Rock While Bringing Fans Home From Basketball Game in Italy appeared first on Breitbart.
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