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| A 17-year-old Italian boy is being questioned by police in the Sicilian city of Catania over the death of a policeman in riots last week. | A 17-year-old Italian boy is being questioned by police in the Sicilian city of Catania over the death of a policeman in riots last week. |
| Filippo Raciti died after violence broke out following a football match between rivals Catania and Palermo. | Filippo Raciti died after violence broke out following a football match between rivals Catania and Palermo. |
| Reports say that the boy was detained along with three other people all under the age of 18 overnight on Tuesday. | Reports say that the boy was detained along with three other people all under the age of 18 overnight on Tuesday. |
| Italian media said the teenagers had been identified from closed-circuit television footage of the clashes. | |
| Mr Raciti was killed outside the city's Massimino stadium. | |
| Although initially believed to have died when a homemade bomb was hurled into his vehicle, a post-mortem revealed that a blow from a blunt object caused the injuries which killed him. | |
| His death prompted outrage from Italian politicians, the suspension of all amateur and professional games and a call for the urgent re-haul of the country's stadiums. | |
| Only the few which meet stringent safety standards will be open to fans when matches resume this weekend. |