Italian police on Friday found
tailor's dummies dressed in the replica shirts of several AS
Roma players hung up in a road near the Colosseum next to a
placard saying "Advice, no offence: sleep with the lights on".
Police are investigating.
Photos on social networks, presumably posted by the culprits
who are believed to be fans of Roam's cross-town rivals Lazio,
showed the mannequins wearing the replica shirts of Daniele De
Rossi, Mohamed Salah and Radja Nainggolan hanging from an
overhead walkway just across from the Colosseum.
Sports Minister Luca Lotti condemned the incident, saying
"this is not sport".
Rome prosecutors said they would investigate Lazio fan groups
to see if charges of aggravated threats could be pressed, or if
the incident was "just a prank".
Lazio told ANSA they "firmly condemned" the incident, while
adding that "after every derby there is mickey-taking and
childish pranks."
Lazio won Sunday's Serie A derby 3-1.
Torino coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said that the suspected Lazio
fans had "gone too far, exceeding all limits".
"I'm struck by the fact that it was possible to hang up
mannequins in front of the most famous monument in the world
without anyone noticing," said the Serbian former Lazio
defender.
"And that they did so, and then filmed it. Scary things".
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