Pitch [soccer field] invader found dead in trash in Denizli

hurriyet daily news ^

[Vigilanteman]

I worked with a co-worker from Indonesia in a previous life. He told me that one reason crime was fairly low there despite there being a lot of poverty and petty pilferage was because the local cops would go over files on slow nights, pick one or two of the worst career criminals and go out and get them. They always mysteriously ended up dead in street fights, drug overdoses or something else which the police would do a cursory investigation into and close the files.

No country is given here, but I wonder is something similar is in play.

[cloudmountain]

How sad for him, his family and his friends.
There is probably much more to his death than a soccer match.

And yes, I do know how much these games mean to people.

[FXRP]

I believe this is in Turkey.

[Fightin Whitey]

Country = Turkey.

Wrong color wristbands perhaps. Or maybe he showed too much ankle.

[Fresh Wind]

Third-worlders take their soccer VERY seriously. Maybe someone didn’t like the outcome of the match and blamed the invader instead of their team.

[cloudmountain]

From the Internet:

The first principle of Indonesia's philosophical foundation, Pancasila, is "belief in the one and only God".
A number of different religions are practiced in the country, and their collective influence on the country's political, economic and cultural life is significant.
The Indonesian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. However, the government only recognizes six official religions:
Islam
Protestantism
Catholicism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism.

Indonesian law requires that every Indonesian citizen hold an identity card that identifies that person with one of these six religions, although citizens may be able to leave that section blank.
Indonesia does not recognize agnosticism or atheism, and blasphemy is illegal.

In the 2010 Indonesian census, 87.18% of Indonesians identified themselves as Muslim (predominantly Sunnis, also including Shias and Ahmadis), 6.96% Protestant, 2.91% Catholic, 2.69% Hindu, 0.72% Buddhist, 0.05% Khong Hu Chu, 0.13% other, and 0.38% unstated or not asked.

The first principle of Indonesia's philosophical foundation, Pancasila, is "belief in the one and only God". A number of different religions are practiced in the country, and their collective influence on the country's political, economic and cultural life is significant. The Indonesian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. However, the government only recognizes six official religions (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism).
Indonesian law requires that every Indonesian citizen hold an identity card that identifies that person with one of these six religions, although citizens may be able to leave that section blank. Indonesia does not recognize agnosticism or atheism, and blasphemy is illegal. In the 2010 Indonesian census, 87.18% of Indonesians identified themselves as Muslim (predominantly Sunnis, also including Shias and Ahmadis), 6.96% Protestant, 2.91% Catholic, 2.69% Hindu, 0.72% Buddhist, 0.05% Khong Hu Chu, 0.13% other, and 0.38% unstated or not asked.

It's a Muslim country.
My husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years as he was an engineer for ARAMCO.
Muslims don't go for murder either. This murder, for my money, went beyond faiths and was PROBABLY about money.
Just a cynical old guess.

QUESTION: What in the world is the faith Khong Hu Chu, which has 0.05% of the population believing in it?
I couldn't find it anywhere.

[BenLurkin]

Gesundheit.

[PapaBear3625]

I worked with a co-worker from Indonesia in a previous life. He told me that one reason crime was fairly low there despite there being a lot of poverty and petty pilferage was because the local cops would go over files on slow nights, pick one or two of the worst career criminals and go out and get them. They always mysteriously ended up dead in street fights, drug overdoses or something else which the police would do a cursory investigation into and close the files.

It's one way to deal with it.

Most crime is committed by a relatively small number of chronic criminals. Most robberies yield a relatively small amount of money, which means that a career criminal has to do a LOT of them to live on the proceeds. Focus on putting the chronic criminals away for as long as possible, and crime will go down.

[namvolunteer]

Kerchoo! Gesunheit!

[Tupelo]

Unlike the United States, soccer is not a joke in most parts of the world. They take it serious. REAL SERIOUS.

[NaturalBornC1t1zen]

Ahmet, we hardly knew ye.

[SgtHooper]

LOL!

[dfwgator]

Soccer Hooliganism in Turkey is real bad.

[dfwgator]

Third-worlders take their soccer VERY seriously.

Not just the third world. It's even bad in countries like Holland. It used to be really bad in England as well, but that has changed (thanks in large part to Thatcher). But in the rest of Europe, there still is a lot of hooliganism.

[dfwgator]

Unlike the United States, soccer is not a joke in most parts of the world. They take it serious. REAL SERIOUS.

Soccer "firms" are like our gangs here.

[SunkenCiv]

Soccer hooliganism. Goal! Goal! Goal! Thanks DeaconBenjamin.

[dfwgator]

These were a series of shows that detailed various Football “Firms” around the world, this is the episode devoted to Turkey.

The Real Football Factories International Episode - 1 Turkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiM5IO-JTU