Overview

• Municipal police fined parents €50 each after 14 children aged 12 to 13 played football on Murano’s Pino Signoretto square.
• Official notices said the children disturbed public order and posed a danger to passersby, with penalties rising to €500 if not paid within the deadline.
• Officers recorded the minors’ names and addresses before contacting families, according to a father who said his son called him in tears.
• A 2019 regulation limits ballplaying in Venice and allows it on Murano only at San Bernardo for children under 11, while parents argue Pino Signoretto was created later and was never listed.
• Local figures, including councilor Marco Gasparinetti and former player Paolo Poggi, condemned the action as disproportionate and urged more common-sense enforcement.