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title: "Deadly stampede caused by pepper spray?"
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date: "2026-07-30T21:08:56+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Deadly stampede caused by pepper spray?

 Written by CBRNe World Staff on 12 December 2018.

Since the incident Italian media has reported that a 16-year-old boy had been identified as the sprayer and would be questioned by juvenile court officials.

Five teens, all juveniles, and a woman who had accompanied her 11-year-old daughter to the concert died in the crush of fleeing concertgoers who toppled over a railing atop a cement ramp outside an exit. The railing gave way, sending young people tumbling over it and landing atop of each other in the area below the ramp, about 5 feet below.

 [Emergency](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/emergency), [Threat](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/threat), [Chemical](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/chemical)

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