ROME, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Italian football clubs launched resistance campaign against what they said were stringent measures to contain hooliganism at stadiums after the soccer riots last week.

    All play was suspended after the death and Sports Minister Giovanna Melandri has said stadiums which do not immediately adopt the new measures should remain closed to fans.

    Italy's cabinet was due to meet at 5 p.m. on Wednesday (1600 GMT) to finalize the measures which have outraged some people in the soccer world.

    The president of twice Italian champions Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, said a "fascist climate" had descended on the country since the policeman's death at a Serie A match between Catania and Palermo last Friday.

    "The closed stadiums are a ridiculous idea. They can't impose these regulations on us. We must go on strike," he told Italian media.

    Only four grounds in Serie A -- Rome's Olympic Stadium, Palermo's Barbera stadium, Turin's Olympic Stadium and the Artemio Franchi stadium in Siena -- meet the regulations.

    The rest, including Milan's San Siro stadium -- home to AC Milan and Inter Milan -- risk remaining closed to spectators when play resumes at a date yet to be confirmed by the Italian Football Federation.

    "It would be an absurd solution. The sport would lose its meaning," said Milan captain Paolo Maldini on the idea of playing matches without the fans.

    The former Italy defender believed it would be better to halt play for another week because playing behind closed doors would be the death of football.

    The policy will hit Italy's lower divisions even harder than Serie A. Eight out of 11 matches in the next round of second-division Serie B matches are expected to be played behind closed doors if the government pushes the measures through.