The Italian justice The man who harassed the Italian reporter last year was sentenced this Tuesday to a year and a half in prison Greta Beccaglia while speaking on live television after the Tuscan derby in between Empoli and Fiorentina.
However, the perpetrator will not be in prison, at least for the next five years, as the judge issued a suspended sentence that will last for that period in exchange for his participation in rehabilitation programs.
The 46-year-old man must also pay an interim compensation of 15,000 euros to the journalist and another 10,000 to the National Order of Journalists and the National and Tuscany Press Association.
Also, he was ordered to be temporarily disqualified from holding public office and to pay legal costs.
In the photos, which were broadcast live in November 2021 by the local station Toscana TV, you can see how the man grabbed the journalist’s buttocks with his hand, while other fans made sexist comments at him, laughing.
The photos and the fact that the tickets for the Empoli-Fiorentina match require the name and surname of the owner the investigations of the Police Station and the identity of the person responsible.
After being interrupted, the journalist told the subject “you can’t do it, I’m sorry”, while the presenter of the program, Giorgio Micheletti, from the set, encouraged him not to be angry and considered that “you are also growing up. in these experiences.”
Micheletti, who was widely criticized for these comments, then tried to hide his statements and said that “some behaviors deserve a healthy slap, that if it was given as a child they are allowed grow up.”
All this also happened in a weekend where the Serie A League supported the fight against gender violence and sent players to dispute their respective commitments with red marks on their faces to symbolically point out his opposition.
The Order of Italian Journalists (ODG) and parties of different political ideas also called for immediate measures to punish the person responsible and expressed their support for all women who suffer or have suffered violence.
Source: La Verdad
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