[BSI NewsBot] Italian player suspended for giving fascist salute (AP)

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    Feb 25, 2005
    Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio was suspended for one game on Tuesday for making a fascist salute to fans during a match last weekend. Di Canio was also fined $11,977 by the Italian Soccer League. The 37-year-old forward will miss Lazio's match at Lecce on Wednesday. "It was a political sentence, it was an unjust decision," Di Canio told a Rome radio station.

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