“It’s disgusting to see women coming to referee in a league where clubs spend hundreds of thousands of euros.”
The shocking images of a journalist's commentary during a match of the Eccellenza Championship in Campania, played on March 24, 2019, immediately went viral. Unrepeatable expressions addressed to a female assistant referee that unleashed an uproar on the web, with criminal consequences for the author.
Tomorrow a new hearing is scheduled before the Court of Vallo della Lucania for the proceedings against the now ex-journalist of Agropoli, Sergio Vessicchio, accused of having let himself go, during the web commentary of a match, to comments of gender discrimination. Almost four years have now passed since the facts.
The match was Agropoli – Sant'Agnello, valid for the thirteenth day of the return leg of Group B of the Excellence Championship in Campania. The journalist, later struck off from the Order precisely because of the conduct assumed in the commentary, was Sergio Vessicchio, accused of having uttered defamatory gender epithets and insults towards the Figc, the Aia and the women's refereeing movement
.A criminal proceeding was born after the filing, on April 26, 2019, of two reports-complaints by the AIA and the same arbitration assistant Anna Lisa Moccia. On March 6, 2020, the public prosecutor issued a summons decree against Vessicchio for aggravated defamation. The first hearing was therefore held on February 24, 2021 before the Criminal Section Court in a single-judge composition.
So far, only one witness has been heard (the civil party Anna Lisa Moccia). After several postponements (for the hearing of defense witnesses and the examination of the defendant, who never showed up) - according to what we learn - at tomorrow's hearing (January 17, 2023) the defense witnesses, if present, should be heard to finally close the trial and reach a conclusion of the trial.
Article published on 16 January 2023 - 20:08
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