Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has condemned those who scrawled insults on a wall close to the site of a plane crash which took the lives of the Torino team on May 4, 1949.
Insulting remarks appeared on the wall on the road to the Superga site on the 68th anniversary of the crash, and Buffon wrote on Facebook how appalled he was by the "inhumane" acts which he hopes never to witness again
He also appealing to Juventus fans to show their real face in the derby with Torino on Saturday.
"In a beautiful day after our victory [over Monaco], my thoughts go to our cousins of Toro and their fans and those glorious players who made a whole nation and the Granata people proud," Buffon wrote.
"Honour to the great champions of Grande Torino and pardon to those who taint themselves with unjustifiable acts, such as deriding or disrespecting you, even today, 70 years on.
"The dead are dead and they do not disturb anybody. They are to be left in peace and be respected, even if they are the fiercest of enemies or rivals one can have. Because the dead have wives, children, grandchildren and to cause them further atrocious sufferance, in addition to what they have already been through, is inhumane.
"Viva rivality, viva banter, viva local rivalry, viva sportiveness, viva life with all its rich sentiments, some noble ones and others maybe a little less. But when undignified and inopportune banners are written, probably without full consideration, you are deader than the dead.
"It disgusts and angers me to hear, even today, our 39 angels from Heysel being tortured: let's not taint ourselves by committing the same crimes. We are humans. We must distinguish ourselves if we want to spread something lasting and constructive for a humanity which is struggling along.
"Let's not settle for being mediocre and vile just to make up for received impoliteness. Fans of Juve, I am sending this message to you because I know that I have the right to do this after all that we have shared together.
"Fans of Juve, make me truly proud of you because if we truly think and believe that the Juve style is represented and indicated by the worthy, absolute values that characterise us, it is inconceivable to desecrate and violate the sensitivity of those who have suffered and keep on suffering: let's not befoul affection, feelings and memories.
"A hug to those who believe that, also and especially in sport, it is necessary to be people of good will. Now, tomorrow, always and forever #FinoAllaFine!!!"
Claudio Marchisio also led the tributes to the 31 people who lost their lives that night in Turin, writing on Facebook: "Sixty-eight years have passed, but in all of us in the word of sport, and not only, their memory is indelible. Grande Torino Football Club."