Di Canio banned for one match for Nazi salute : Mail & Guardian Online

Controversial Lazio star Paolo Di Canio has been banned for one match after performing a Nazi salute to fans for the second week in succession. The 39-year-old former Italian international was punished after making the gesture while he was substituted in his team's 1-1 draw against Juventus at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on Saturday. Lazio were also fined €8 000, the same amount they were ordered to pay last weekend for allowing their supporters to brandish neo-Nazi symbols during the Serie A match against Livorno. Di Canio also made a Nazi salute at Livorno fans in that game but managed to escape censure. Saturday's incident was the third time this year that Di Canio had made the fascist gesture. siehe auch: Di Canio banned and fined for Nazi salute. Controversial Lazio star Paolo Di Canio has been banned for one match after performing a Nazi salute to fans for the second week in succession, Di Canio banned for one match for second Nazi salute, Di Canio suspended for one match because of fascist salute. Italian first division side Lazio's Paolo Di Canio was suspended for one match because he gave fascist salute to fans during last Saturday's home game against Juventus, Di Canio says fascist salute ban is 'unjust'. LAZIO'S Paolo Di Canio has branded his one-match suspension for giving a fascist salute as "unjust" and denied that the gesture was politically motivated. The former Celtic forward will miss today's Serie A match at Lecce as a result of the ban. The Italian league's disciplinary commission also fined the player £7,000. "It was a political sentence - it was an unjust decision," Di Canio told a Rome radio station. "My gesture has nothing to do with political ideologies."