Yesterday morning a 28-year-old football fan was accidentally shot dead by Italian police. They were allegedly trying to defuse a fight between a group of FC Lazio and Juventus fans who had confronted each other at a roadside diner in the central Italian town of Arezzo. In response, hooligans all over Italy treated us to a day of riots…The death of the Lazio fan united all the ultrà groups against one common enemy: the normally friendly, tender Italian police.The hooligans wanted all the matches of the day called off, but the only game that was canceled was the Lazio vs Inter Milan match. After all, the death of Filippo Raciti, an Italian police officer killed in a clash with hooligans in Catania in February, caused all sporting events to be suspended for a week, and most games of the remaining 2006/07 season were played with no fans allowed in the grounds.Hooligans in Bergamo broke down the glass walls at the local stadium and forced the referee to suspend the game, after the hooligans threatened that "something bad was going to happen." The ultràs of Parma F.C. displayed only one banner: "Death is equal for everyone."All around Italy, the cream of the crop of our generation chanted anti-police songs. In Rome, the offices of the Italian Olympic Committee were raided by hundreds of angry young men who, armed with stones and sticks, let their rage run wild, destroying two floors of the offices. Other hooligans attacked a police station, a bus and a dozen cars were set on fire.Just another reason to heed the advice of Tourism Minister Francesco Rutelli in his online plea delivered in his fluent English: "Pleeez visit Italy". No, really, please do. Don't let yourself pass by a chance to catch a glimpse of the Third World right in the middle of Europe.