Eleven months of accusations and defense, for a sporting trial with four hearings, one in Milan and three in Rome, leading up to today’s sentence which “warns” the coach of the national rhythmic team, Emanuela Maccarani, and acquits her assistant Olga Tishina, both investigated by the federal sports prosecutor’s office after reports of psychological abuse by former gymnasts Nina Corradini and Anna Basta.
A device on which the federal court panel, chaired by Marco Leoni, reserves ten days for the publication of the reasons and destined to cause discussion especially for the speech of the federal prosecutor Michele Rossetti. “There is no evidence of oppressive behavior towards the gymnasts” and indeed if one fault can be attributed to Emanuela Maccarani it is that of “excess affection towards Basta”: these were her words to explain the requests of warning for the coach who, according to the contested articles, could have also risked a fine, or even disqualification or expulsion. None of this, with the federal court confirming the requests of the federal prosecutor who during the trial was also accompanied by Livia Rossi, national prosecutor at the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport, “provided”, they explain by the Federginnastica, “to give even more greater transparency in the proceedings” at the request of federal prosecutor Rossetti himself. “The point of the procedure is to find the line of demarcation between what is the right reproach from the coach and when this is exceeded, becoming humiliation”, Livia Rossi said at the opening of the hearing, finding the answer in the words of the federal prosecutor Rossetti according to which there is no evidence “of oppressive behavior aimed at obtaining medals”.
Hence the request for a warning for Maccarani and for acquittal for Tishina who “did not commit the crime”. The defense of the Farfalle coach, however, asked for total acquittal because according to the lawyer Avilio Presutti the atmosphere in Desio was “familiar”, while Maccarani “should be awarded a medal for not having abandoned Anna Basta”. given the former gymnast’s problems maintaining her ideal weight during her time at the Academy. A speech, that of Presutti, which preceded a deliberation session which lasted about two hours and which led to the first degree sentence at the sports justice level. It is still too early to say whether Maccarani will appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal to have her warning removed as well. We will have to wait for the reasons. In the meantime, the coach looks back on eleven months that she defines as “painful and difficult”, reiterating that she “has a clear conscience”, despite a wound that she “will remain for the rest of her life”. In the meantime, the first game is closed, waiting for the Monza prosecutor’s office to do its job with ordinary justice.
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2023-09-29 17:54:00
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