Police find spray can in Italy disco crush probe
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Italian police investigating a deadly disco stampede said yesterday they found a pepper spray can and were questioning dozens of witnesses following accounts by concertgoers that a teenage boy had sprayed an irritating substance, triggering the mad crowd rush to flee.
It wasn’t known if the can found was the one whose spray apparently set off the stampede about 1am on Saturday in a crowd awaiting a rapper’s performance at the Lanterna Azzurra (Blue Lantern) disco in Corinaldo, a small town in the Marche region of east-central Italy, the Carabiniere paramilitary police commander of Ancona province, Colonel Cristian Carrozza, told reporters.
He also declined to confirm reports that a 16-year-old boy had been identified as the sprayer and would be questioned by juvenile court officials.
Five teens, all juveniles, and a woman who had accompanied her 11-year-old daughter to the concert, died in the crush of fleeing concertgoers who toppled over a railing atop a cement ramp outside an exit. The railing gave way, sending young people tumbling over it and landing atop of each other in the area below the ramp, about 1.5 meters below.
On Saturday, prosecutors and Italy’s premier and interior minister told reporters that nearly 1,400 tickets had been sold, while the disco could safely hold only 870 people, with the capacity of the room of the concert itself set at about 460.
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