Taipei Times - Paolo di Canio may receive lecture from Auschwitz survivor

Paolo di Canio, the Lazio forward who has become the darling of the neo-fascist right with his repeated straight-arm salutes, has been summoned by the mayor of Rome to listen to fellow Italians who survived the Nazi death camps. An official said the mayor, Walter Veltroni, had asked the entire SS Lazio squad to attend a meeting next Thursday. Asked if he expected Di Canio to turn up, the official said: 'He is invited.' The move is part of an initiative by the mayor that has already brought AS Roma players and officials face to face with Holocaust survivors in the city hall. For two hours on Thursday, Francesco Totti and the other members of the Serie A side heard former concentration-camp inmates appeal for them to stop playing as soon as they saw Nazi symbols in the crowd. Veltroni told the Guardian he had been shocked into doing something after learning that a swastika and two similar symbols had been hung from the terraces of Rome's Olympic stadium during Roma's game against Livorno on Jan. 29. He said: 'The word `game' and swastika have no place together.'