Journalist harassed on live TV: the perpetrator of the gesture identified

• Journalist harassed on live TV, it is controversy

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November 29, 2021 Police allegedly identified the fan who, after the Empoli-Fiorentina match on November 27, harassed the Toscana Tv journalist Greta Beccaglia while she was live for a sports broadcast. The Empoli police station identified him by crossing the images taken by the same television with others. Other investigations are underway. At the moment no specific measures have been taken against him because the police are awaiting the report from the journalist. It would be a Fiorentina fan. The police have also identified a second person.

The Tuscan Press Association and the Tuscan Sports Journalists Group - Ussi, are ready to file a civil action if a proceeding is initiated against the person responsible for the harassment against Greta Beccaglia. The president of AST, Sandro Bennucci, and the president of the sports journalists group, Franco Morabito, express "new solidarity with Greta Beccaglia and reiterate their condemnation of the unspeakable gesture". The Fnsi Equal Opportunities Commission was brought before the affair.

The images, which have been bouncing on social media for days, leave no room for doubt: a purple fan who came out of the stadium where Fiorentina was defeated away from Empoli is groping the sports reporter. She takes him back by telling him that "You can't do this, I'm sorry", the colleague in the studio tells her not to "take it". The video, which went viral just 24 hours after the day against violence against women was celebrated around the world, raised a wave of indignation.

Greta Beccaglia wanted to tell her version of events on Instagram: “We have just finished the live broadcast. After the match I left the stadium to wait for the fans. Unfortunately they started yelling at me not nice things while I was at work, while I was live and one even allowed himself to slap me on the ass. This is an unacceptable thing, especially in 2021, when a girl like me does a bunch like this to become a journalist, to reach her goal and these people don't exist ".

The Toscana Tv journalist then said that she reacted "with education and composure, it's my way of being. I preferred to behave like this: I was live, with many people watching and who must be respected. I will not easily forget the eyes of that person who became the protagonist of this episode so serious. He slapped me on the butt in a very violent way. Moreover, it also happened that, after some obscene appreciation shouted by some fans, another person, hooded, touched the private parts. The cameraman who was with me also told me that he had never seen such a thing in so many years of service. It was an experience that hurt me a lot. I think it is right to talk about it in order to educate certain people not to repeat gestures that should never be done ".Many criticized the studio presenter, Giorgio Micheletti, guilty of a too soft reaction towards the unworthy gesture that the reporter had to endure ('Don't take it').

"Everyone was struck by that sentence in the video that was cut, but I am defending Giorgio, because at that juncture he still didn't quite understand what was really happening", clarified Greta Beccaglia, "Then he also apologized and said wonderful things to me. . And he defended me firmly. At the moment, I repeat, given the sudden and unexpected episode, he said those words but there is absolutely nothing against him ".

Micheletti, in Corriere della Sera, explained his reaction: "Our mistake was first of all organizational, we should not have left our journalist alone in the midst of a crowd of" beings "with an IQ below zero - he said -.

My intent, when I asked her not to take it, was to lighten up to help Greta's lack of experience in managing a difficult situation like the one she had to face.

I first thought of her from a professional point of view, because she had the psychological pressure of having to manage a live one, I tried to reassure her, I didn't want to minimize what had happened, but to prevent something worse from happening to her ".