This Thursday will begin the oral and public trial against the former director of the Argentine School of Basketball Referees (EAAB), Sebastian Monclobaafter the complaint of White German for harassment, abuse of power and harassment. By AM750the referee revealed that she sees with “very surprised” the progress of the case and commented that this accusation changed his life completely, since he had to start his career from scratch in another province because of the situations of violence that he experienced in the Buenos Aires league.
“I received the news with great surprise. I made the complaint on August 10, 2021. In other words, we have been here for almost ten months and already having the date of the oral and public trial is super important. I was amazed at the speed with which this all came out. That is also like a pretty important encouragement, at least for me. Not only that I I will be able to close this stagewhich is something that I urgently need, but to see that we are one step closer to achieving justice,” he said with girls with balls.
However, he commented that the ten months from the beginning of the complaint “were very hard.” “There were many things that I experienced. There have been many changes in my life as a result of this.. He made me want to continue in arbitration, want to be on the court, want to continue working, after I had lost all that vitality and all that motivation”, he commented.
Moncloba revealed that after the complaint he had to move to another province to be able to continue working: “When I made the complaint I ran from my position, I made a kind of retirement from my profession, because I knew how this system was managed. To be able to file a complaint, I had to be outside. because if not I would lose my job and that was what everyone knew”.
“If you said something that Sebastián and a small group of friends inside him did not want, they left you without a job. Leaving me aside meant that later I could end up going back to work. Within the federation where I was working, the Federal Capital area, Sebastian still had his people alliesyour friends of these macho pactseven also colleagues who have treated me badly so that I feel bad, “he commented.
But he stressed: “I didn’t want to stop refereeing. I wanted to see what would happen to my profession without having this guy making decisions on top of me. And when I did, I began to enjoy it, but 100 percent more. Now yes, I really realize that I can enjoy my profession without having a person who is harassing me, who is harassing me on top. And for that I had to make the decision to run from this federation and go to another place. I went to the province of Santa Fe.”
In this sense, for the arbitrator in this sense her case is “exemplary”. Especially if you take into account that it happenswithin all this extremely macho environment and so oppressive that where we are immersed”.
