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Serie A: Soccer TV reporter sexually harassed when going live

2021-11-30T11:05:52.133Z


There is great outrage in Italy after a viewer grabbed a journalist's butt in front of the live camera. Even the former prime minister is involved in the case.


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Fiorentina fans at the game Empoli against Florence

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Sexual harassment in front of a TV camera is causing outrage in Italy.

After a Serie A football match, journalist Greta Beccaglia was groped by a man on the bottom during her live broadcast in front of the Empoli stadium.

The police chief of Florence has now imposed a three-year stadium ban on the perpetrator.

It happened just on the weekend when players, coaches and referees with red on their faces wanted to draw attention to violence against women on Italian football fields and on social media.

The reporter filed a complaint against the man on Monday evening, who was identified on the basis of the TV recordings and surveillance cameras.

"Unfortunately we know that women suffer such attacks again and again, and they are not recorded by cameras," Beccaglia told the Ansa news agency.

"That mustn't happen."

"You must not"

The film shows how the man approaches the journalist from behind as he leaves the stadium, spits into his hand - or at least implies it - then grabs the woman's bum and walks on.

"You can't do that!" The reporter called after the man after a brief moment of shock.

Beccaglia's broadcaster Toscana TV announced that this wasn't the only incident.

The reporter was approached by other men moments later.

When a radio station reached out to the alleged perpetrator on Monday evening and interviewed him, he said that he had made a mistake, that he was sorry and that it was "actually intended as a joke".

He was frustrated because of his 2-1 defeat by his Fiorentina, he didn't talk to anyone and just wanted to go to his car.

Also moderator in the criticism

"To portray such a bad harassment as a joke means that he didn't understand what happened here," Beccaglia said.

"That's an impossible comment and it makes things worse."

The reporter said that she received a lot of solidarity after the incident.

Political parties, journalists' associations and clubs strongly condemned the case.

The studio moderator of the soccer show also came under heavy criticism: he had initially dismissed the act in the live broadcast with the comment "Don't get excited".

He told the Adnkronos news agency that he wanted to support his colleague so that she would not get involved in the provocation.

"I didn't want to play down the incident." Nevertheless, the broadcaster announced that the moderator would no longer be used for the time being.

Based on the comment, the former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote on Twitter: "We should make it clear that we must all get upset."

aha / dpa

Source: spiegel

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