(ANSA) - Turin, May 17 - Four defendants on Friday were
sentenced to just over 10 years in jail on manslaughter charges
for sowing panic in Turin's Piazza San Carlo in the night of
June 3, 2017, during the screening of a Champions League final,
in an incident in which led to two women losing their lives and
saw 1,672 people were injured.
The four young Moroccan nationals used pepper spray in order
to steal money as a large crowd was watching the Juventus-Real
Madrid match on a maxi screen in the Turin square, causing the
deadly stampede.
Four convicted over Turin stampede deaths
Gang sparked panic with pepper spray in crowd watching soccer