As Roma, hard video stolen from an employee and released: the club fires the victim

An intimate video of a Roma employee with her boyfriend she bounces on the chats of the players and employees of the Giallorossi club and the company fires the employee for “environmental incompatibility”.

To tell what happened in recent weeks in Trigoria, headquarters of the club owned by Dan and Ryan Friedkinand the Everyday occurrence.

According to the reconstruction, the case broke out when a young player from Roma’s Primavera team asked to borrow the employee’s cell phone to call the agent.

Instead of simply dialing the prosecutor’s phone number, the player would browse through images and videos of the employee. Until she came across one where the 30-year-old was filming herself with her boyfriend and sharing it. Once, twice, ten times. Who knows how many.

The club’s reaction? A meeting with the youth sector – in the meantime, sexist comments on the video would have flowed – with the footballer who would have burst into tears confessing that he had shared the video first.

Then the decision to unilaterally terminate the employment relationship with the employee who has been employed at the club for more than 10 years and who is also a huge Roma fan.

In the letter reported by Everyday occurrence and signed by Lorenzo Vitalilegal manager of the club, the company’s version.

“A video was brought to the attention of Human Resources management and top management which unmistakably portrays her performing sexual acts. Unfortunately we understand that this video was viewed by a large part of the club’s staff and players.” So the decision: dismissal considering “the incompatibility of the continuation of his employment relationship with the peaceful and regular progress of the company’s activity”.

The employee goes. This was decided by the club led for almost a year now (the only case in Italy) by a woman, the Greek CEO Lina Souloukou.

Now the matter risks ending up in court. The now former employee has entrusted herself to a lawyer who is trying to settle the matter with the club. The complaint against the club is that it did not defend the employee, who in the meantime sought psychological support, and instead sided with the young player.

The possibility, if an agreement is not reached, is to end up in court. To the criminal, because the employee would be willing to report everything. And to have half of Trigoria’s cell phone confiscated.

The reaction: “Coni intervene”

Difference Donna and Assist National Ass. Athletes, ask for the immediate intervention of CONI and the Football Federation, to remedy this shameful decision. “We expect very different behavior from AS Roma, not only because it is led by a woman, but because it is a company that has always claimed to be attentive to these issues. What happened is terrible and it’s ridiculous and it’s shameful that it’s the woman who pays. The sports authorities should make their voices heard immediately.” The two associations are ready to provide legal and psychological assistance to the employee and express all their solidarity with the worker. Maximum attention now for the violated rights of this woman and for the behavior of a company so illustrious that it must live up to a democratic system”, declare in unison the president of Differenza Donna Elisa Ercoli and the president of Assist, Luisa Rizzitelli.