- Filippo Raciti
Filippo Raciti (
17 January 1967 [cite web | url=http://www.poliziadistato.it/pds/primapagina/raciti/chi_era.html | title=Polizia di stato - un giorno triste | accessdate=2007-02-03 | language=Italian ] -2 February 2007 ) was an Italian police officer ("ispettore capo di polizia") who died in violence betweenCalcio Catania supporters and police officers. [cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6326513.stm|title=Italian league halted by violence |work=BBC |accessdate=2007-02-03 ] [cite news |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/continentalfootball/story/0,,2005154,00.html |title=Italian football suspended after police fatality |work=Guardian Unlimited |accessdate=2007-02-03]Born in
Catania ,Sicily , Raciti joined the Italian police in the June 1986, and was included in the local flying squad in late 2006. He lived inAcireale , in the Catania neighbourhood, with his wife and two children, aged 15 and 9.A week before his death, Raciti gave evidence at the trial of a
football hooligan , who was then freed by the local magistrate. According to one of his colleagues, the hooligan laughed in his face as he left the court. [cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/04/nfootie04.xml |title=Italian football rocked by new troubles |work=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=2007-02-05]Raciti died in
Catania onFebruary 2 ,2007 , after the end of the football derby between Catania and Palermo, because of liver damage [cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/04/sports/fans.php |title=Hooligans kill a policeman, throwing Italy soccer into a void |work=International Herald Tribune |accessdate=2007-02-08] caused byblunt object trauma , disproving an initial hypothesis which claimed his death was caused by a homemade firecracker. [cite news | url=http://www.adnkronos.com/3Level.php?cat=Cronaca&loid=1.0.679996701 | title=Raciti ucciso da corpo contundente | work=Italy Global Nation (Adnkronos) |accessdate=2007-02-04 | language=Italian ]Raciti's death, which brought all Italian football matches, even the national team, to be suspended for a week, caused strong emotion in Italy, with a great and somewhat uncommon amount of solidarity towards the Italian law enforcement forces, and massive coverage worldwide. [cite news | url=http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Sport/2007/02/gcer030207_catania_sitiweb.shtml?uuid=0a302976-b377-11db-8b6a-00000e251029 | title=Dalla Bbc alla Cnn: la notizia degli scontri dilaga sui siti web | work=
Il Sole 24 Ore |accessdate=2007-02-05 | language=Italian ] A 17-years-old Catania hooligan was later jailed to be held in custody for the murder, and is currently investigated by the Italian police. [cite news | url=http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/feb10f.html | title=Teen denies Raciti murder | work=Channel 4 |accessdate=2007-03-20 | language=Italian ]On
February 17 , 2007, the city council ofQuarrata , inTuscany , approved a proposal to name the local football stadium after the Italian policeman. [cite news | url=http://www.raisport.rai.it/sportarticolo/0,,55804,00.html| title= A Quarrata stadio dedicato a Raciti| work=RAI Sport |accessdate=2007-03-20 | language=Italian ] . An official ceremony, also attended by Raciti's widow, was held onMarch 10 , making Quarrata the first city to name a stadium after him.References
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2007 Catania football violence
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