Italian police kill football fan

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A football fan has been shot dead by police during a fight between rival supporters in Italy, officials say. Local authorities said there had been a "tragic error" when police intervened to quell violence between fans of Roman team Lazio and Turin-based Juventus. The victim, a Lazio fan, was on his way to a match at Inter Milan when he was shot at a rest stop near Arezzo. Later hundreds of armed fans attacked a police barracks and the Italian Olympic Committee headquarters in Rome. The Inter-Lazio game was postponed after the shooting and other matches started 10 minutes late, with players and officials wearing black armbands. The Juventus fans were reportedly on their way from Naples to an away match against Parma. "It was a tragic error," said Arezzo police chief Vincenzo Giacobbe. "Our agent had intervened to prevent the brawl between these two groups, who had not been identified as fans," Mr Giacobbe said, according to the Italian news agency Ansa. The victim was identified as Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey from Rome. It's the summary of yesterday here in Italy. I'm very sad, a young boy can't die for a football match. And I think that fans can't go to the stadium for fighting because football it's a play.