The Sportitalia journalist was abruptly interrupted during a connection by a person who, distracted and clumsy, passed in front of the camera and knocked it over.
The good and the bad of the live broadcast happened to the journalist on Friday evening Tancredi Palmeri. On the occasion of the Serie A Festival he was connected from Parma and was interacting with the Sportitalia Mercato studio when, thanks to the carelessness (or, perhaps, foolish premeditation) of an English tourist, an unpleasant accident happened to him.
The incident between the English tourist and Palmeri on live TV
The sequence of images and the excitement of those moments explain what happened and, from a careful analysis of the recording, another detail also emerged which led us to suspect that it was something organised. That person had only pretended to be careless and naïve but in reality had purposely walked past there, in front of the camera, tripping over the wires and provoking the correspondent’s understandably nervous and annoyed reaction.
What happened: “He wanted to be a phenomenon”
What happened? The pitch invasion occurs while Palmeri is serving. A person, clumsily, walks looking at the cell phone in his hand: not even he realizes that he is about to crash into the workstation and knocks it over due to the impact. A heated discussion arose, a contact commented live from the studio and underlined by the broadcaster with a post on social media: “Live attack on Tancredi Palmeri”.
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Shortly afterwards Palmeri returns in front of the lens. He is visibly annoyed and has good reason to be. He himself clarifies the dynamics of what happened: “What happened? What I would call a fucking idiot, an English boy wanted to be a phenomenon in front of his friends. Too bad I was live otherwise I would have chased him.”
“If you want, we can close the connection and go… be respected”they suggest to him from the studio but Palmeri has cooled off and preferred to continue his work.
Later, Palmeri returned to the topic and played down what happened by sharing a post on social media in which, in addition to explaining that he was fine, he showed himself smiling, sitting at the table with other colleagues including Monica Bertini (the one closest to him ) of Mediaset.
“Since many are worried about my safety, and many others are enjoying the attack suffered live by the fucking English idiot, I wanted to reassure everyone: everything is fine”, the journalist’s words. Did it end there? No, because the next day he returned to the matter raising a suspicion.
When reviewing the video of the incident, Palmeri noticed that behind him there was perhaps an accomplice of the boy who passed in front of the cameras: he would have done so with the clear intent to disturb and not out of clumsiness
“Moreover, the girl who was with him – and who he later catches up with while running – can be seen passing behind and laughingly looking at the camera, knowing what is about to happen. And in fact she doesn’t warn him.”
