Saturday, March 31, 2007

Argentine soccer thug leader turns himself in to police

Rafael Di Zeo, leader of La Doce (The 12) a barra brava (group of soccer hooligans) who follow Argentina soccer giant Boca Juniors, has handed himself into police along with two other Doce members, police said on Thursday.
Di Zeo had been ruled to four years and three months of jail time for a March 3, 1999 attack on Chacarita Jrs fans following a friendly match between Boca and Chacarita in Boca's La Bonbonera Stadium.
Di Zeo handed himself in alongside Fabian Kruger and Diego Rodriguez at mid-day on Thursday to the Federal Investigative Police headquarters which at the General Paz Avenue-Madariaga Avenue crossroads in central Buenos Aires. Thirty other La Doce members greeted him at police station.
Last week, two other Doce members -- Fernando Di Zeo and Gustavo Pereyra, known as El Oso (The Bear) -- turned themselves in to police.
Police already had two others in custody: Fabian Krueger and Diego Rodriguez. And the final convicted Doce member, Juan Castro, remains at large.
The La Doce attackers were first convicted on Sept. 26, 2005, by the city's Oral Tribunal number 6, and their sentences were ratified by an appeals court this month

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