Italian football club Lazio was fined €50,000 by the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) on Thursday for an anti-Semitic incident which occurred last October.
The club’s hardcore “ultra” fans plastered stickers of holocaust victim Anne Frank wearing a Roma guernsey on the walls of the south end (Curva Sud) of Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, normally reserved for Roma fans, during a game against Cagliari.
The stickers were accompanied by anti-Semitic slogans, such as “Roma fans are Jews”.
The incident caused an uproar in Italy and beyond, especially from Jewish groups.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella was quick to condemn the group’s behaviour.
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