Lazio have been handed a suspended one-match stand closure for anti-Semitic chants by their supporters during last month’s derby win over Roma, Serie A said on Tuesday.

In a statement, Italy’s top football division said that the sanction regarded the Curva Nord section of the Stadio Olimpico, from where Lazio’s hardcore fans made “boorish and offensive chants, which were also of a religious nature, directed at Roma supporters”.

The statement added that the punishment was suspended for one year due to Lazio “assisting the police in identifying those responsible and … trying to prevent anything similarly deplorable from happening again”.

A similar offence within that period would lead to the closure coming into affect alongside any new sanction.

Read the full story on sportsdesk.com.mt...

Sign up to our free newsletters

Get the best updates straight to your inbox:
Please select at least one mailing list.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing.