Bergamo mourns the murdered fan Riccardo Claris

A fight between Atalanta and Inter fans ended in murder on Saturday night in Bergamo. Riccardo Claris, 26, an Atalanta fan known as “Claris” in the Curva Nord, was killed with a stab wound to the back in via dei Ghirardelli, a few hundred meters from the stadium.

The person who stabbed him was Jacopo De Simone, a 19-year-old with no criminal record, who told the magistrate that he had acted to defend his twin brother. According to reconstructions, it all began with a taunt in a bar in Borgo Santa Caterina, which degenerated into a brawl. The Atalanta fans, in numerical superiority, chased the group of Inter fans until they were near the home of the De Simone brothers.

Jacopo, seeing his rivals arrive and worried about his brother, went up to the house to get a knife. Then, a single lethal stab wound to Claris, so violent that it broke the blade. The intervention of the emergency services was useless: the 26-year-old died shortly after. De Simone was arrested and is now in prison awaiting validation.

Condolences in the city and among the Atalanta fans, who yesterday displayed a banner in his memory in Monza: “Claris everywhere with us”Mayor Elena Carnevali expressed her closeness to the family, hoping that “similar tragedies will never happen again.”