The one that was given to a young gymnast that was fall for not having correctly performed a exercise there was one on the beam slap and not a simple one buffet as claimed by the defense.
For this reason Moira Ferrari, technical director of the Palestra Gymnasium of Treviso, was found guilty of the crime of abuse of means of correction. The woman, assisted by the lawyer Luigi Fadalti, was inflicted in the first instance 2 months imprisonment (the maximum sentence is 6 months) with the conditional suspension and the granting of mitigating factors generic. He will have to pay to the injured parties (the girl, who at the time of the events was a minor and to her mother, who filed the complaint) 4 thousand euros in commission while the extent of the compensation will have to be quantified in civil court. The lawyer for the civil parties Francesco Murgia quantified the damage at around 30 thousand euros.
Sports justice
Thus ended on Monday a trial that had created quite a stir in the city as well as within the world of artistic gymnastics at a national level. Ferrari, in 2017 – the same year in which the events allegedly occurred – she had gone in front of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for his behavior and had closed the accounts with the sporting justice system by reaching a plea agreement (without guilt). Suspension from activities lasting one month and a 300 euro fine. «We would have liked a more severe sentence – say the young girl’s parents – but that bad experience is now behind her. At the Gymnasium, violence against gymnasts was not occasional but had been adopted as method of work”.
The sports director’s intervention in court
The technical director of the Treviso gym was accused of having given a slap strong enough to leave five imprinted on the pupil’s cheeks fingers of the hand. Ferrari should have been on Monday lay down but she limited herself to spontaneous statements which did not give the prosecution and the plaintiff’s lawyer the opportunity to ask questions. But he also addressed questions formal apology to the young athlete and family. But then she has shot to zero against the many testimonies that during the trial had not only supported the Prosecutor’s thesis but had gone so far as to fear that the violence was a “system”.
The investigation closed
In particular, she lashed out at a public safety officer, at the time of the events, a judicial police officer in the Prosecutor’s Office, who was also the father of a young woman who allegedly received similar treatment from Ferrari. «He told me – he recalled in the hearing – that I knew very well the Work that he was doing and that therefore they would be there trouble». The reference is to a 2012 investigation opened for mistreatment towards some very young people. But the complaint from one of the alleged victims came archived. Judge Iuri De Biasi did not accept the request of the public prosecutor and the plaintiff’s lawyer for a reclassification of the facts from abuse of the means of correction to mistreatment. The file with the testimony of Mr. was instead sent to the Prosecutor’s Office Adriana Crisci, former Italian national and Olympian. The woman is accused of perjury.
