“Football to my wife? It was a minimal complaint from the fans.” This is what Lazio footballer Danilo Cataldi said in the courtroom, heard in Genoa as a witness in the trial of 15 Genoa ultras for blackmailing the club. A statement that left the judges perplexed enough to make the president exclaim: “Does it seem normal to you for a fan to kick his wife?” According to the prosecutor’s office, it was the former Genoa ultras leader Massimo Leopizzi who launched it on 7 May 2017, who forced “the footballer Cataldi and his wife not to be photographed by a family of Genoa fans at the end of the Genoa-Inter match because ‘unworthy'”.
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Cataldi initially downplayed the pressure from the fans and the attacks, speaking of “bad words, insults but no physical contact”. Then, pressed by the judges, he spoke of pushing and confirmed the testimonies given during the investigations. On trial there are 15 fans who were investigated as part of the investigation into extortion against the club from 2010 to 2017. The investigation was carried out by the deputy Francesca Rombolà and the deputy prosecutor Francesco Pinto, and had led to prison Massimo Leopizzi, Artur Marashi and Fabrizio Fileni on charges of criminal association aimed at extortion and private violence for having extorted approximately 327 thousand euros from Genoa. For the investigators of the flying squad, the fans kept the team in check to guarantee the peace of the fans and avoid further disputes.
2023-11-22 20:46:54
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