Statement from the Curva Sud: ENOUGH! THE CURVA IS NOT THE SCAPEGOAT What happened is there for all to see. A handling of public order which, instead of preventing it, helped fuel a tension that resulted in the avoidable contact between the two sets of supporters. And today, some time later, the bill arrives: stadium bans, measures and investigative methods that we consider absolutely disproportionate to the alleged facts. We ask how it is possible that, after a "management" that should have prevented events from escalating, responsibility ends up being offloaded exclusively onto people identified after the fact, while silence has fallen over the tear gas canisters fired at head height, one of which caused extremely serious head injuries to a fan who had nothing whatsoever to do with the events. Incidentally, that fan will bear the marks for the rest of his life, with the obvious consequences. Moreover, certain episodes, such as the unexpected stopping of a coach of fans (among them the injured young man himself), who were then forced to get off and join the march, as well as plainly threatening remarks made by State Police officials along the lines of "you're raising your heads too much, but we'll crush them at birth", give rise to well-founded doubts that we are facing a premeditated strategy aimed at bringing about what then happened. On top of all this, the fines imposed on some of the lads also appear entirely unjustified: for an unauthorised march, and for not using the hypothetical shuttle buses, which were not present on site, let alone announced, when in fact the march was imposed by the police officers present.