ULTRAS CAUSE UPROAR WITH ANNE FRANK STICKERS
Italian police and soccer authorities yesterday opened investigations after Lazio fans posted anti-Semitic stickers of Holocaust victim Anne Frank wearing the jersey of their top-flight city rivals AS Roma. The stickers and anti-Semitic slurs were found on glass barriers, walls and bathrooms in a section of Rome's Olympic Stadium that was used by Lazio supporters on Sunday in their Serie A match against Cagliari. The hard-core and often violent Lazio fans, known as "ultras," left the stickers and anti-Semitic slogans such as "Roma fans are Jews" in a section of the stadium where Roma supporters usually sit when their team is playing. Local rivals Lazio and Roma share the stadium. Nicola Fratoianni, the head of the small Italian Left party, said those guilty of the anti-Semitism at the stadium should be made to memorise Anne Frank's diary.
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