Overview
- After an away game, a bus carrying Pistoia Basket supporters was hit by stones and bricks once a police escort had left near Contigliano on the Rieti–Terni road.
- A brick pierced the front windshield and fatally struck the second driver, reported as 65-year-old Raffaele Marianella, while about 45–50 passengers were unharmed.
- Prosecutors in Rieti opened a murder case against unknown suspects as police questioned roughly a dozen home-team fans and continued the search.
- Investigators say the assailants hid in roadside vegetation, with police reports indicating about ten attackers who fled the scene.
- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Sports Minister Andrea Abodi condemned the violence, and Pistoia Basket paused club activities out of respect for the victim.