(ANSA) - BRESCIA, DECEMBER 06 - They discriminated against two employees who had joined in a civil ceremony replacing them in their duties: for this reason the Brescia Court of Appeal overturned the first instance sentence and sentenced the mayor of Calcinato, in the Brescia area, Nicoletta Maestri, the his deputy MircoCinquetti and the local police commissioner Stefano Vergano.
The three were convicted of "the discriminatory nature - reads the sentence - of their conduct following the civil union of two employees".
They are Federica Lombardo and Luisa Zampiceni, respectively former head of the technical office of the municipality of Calcinato and former commander of the local police of the same Brescia municipality.
Both had been replaced after they were married in a civil union in 2020. In January 2021, Federica Lombardo was removed from the role of head of the technical office that she had held since 2011. In her place was a newly hired colleague.
"A rotation never done before and, not even after, with a discriminating attitude - write the judges in the sentence - which is not done immediately in 2020 so as not to create suspicions".
In the same period "the Municipality - we read again - begins a discriminatory attitude also towards its now former commander Zampiceni,
