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Promotional image for a remake of "Final Fantasy 7": Tifa Lockhart can be seen on the right
Photo: Square Enix
An animated sex scene was unexpectedly shown during the live broadcast of an event organized by the Italian Five Star Movement on Tuesday. The event, which was streamed on Facebook, among other things, was actually about data transparency in political processes. The host was Senator Maria Laura Mantovani, who was staying at the Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome. Other participants were added via zoom. Among them Giorgio Parisi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
But just before Parisi spoke, a participant in the video call played a computer-generated porn film and shared his screen.
The video featured Tifa Lockhart, a digital character from the role-playing game »Final Fantasy VII«.
However, the clip had nothing to do with the well-known game itself apart from the character to be seen, it was a third-party production.
Depending on the transmission platform, the clip ran for 20 to 35 seconds including sound as a large screen.
It took a moment for the participants in the call to understand what was happening and an attempt was made to get rid of the troublemaker.
Clips of the broadcast are a hit on Twitter
Around 150 viewers followed the Facebook broadcast at that moment.
Excerpts from the event documenting the incident have already been played hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter.
We have not linked them for reasons of youth protection.
The passage has now apparently been cut out of the official Facebook video for the event.
It is still unclear who exactly was responsible for the incident.
All that is known is the zoom pseudonym of the call participant who shared his screen.
In the past, especially since the beginning of the corona pandemic, there have been numerous so-called zoom bombings, in which unknown persons took part in publicly accessible video calls and played pornographic clips there as a joke or disruption.
As the Italian news agency Ansa reports, Senator Maria Laura Mantovani reported the incident to the responsible postal police (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni).
The online event continued normally after the incident, lasting more than three hours.
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