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The Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) stated Friday an investigation has been opened after two workers of Serie A facet Roma had been sacked after an intimate video of them was shared by an under-19 group participant.
The case has made waves in Italy over alleged discrimination with one MP promising she would elevate the matter in parliament.
The youth group participant, a minor based on the Italian press, gained entry final November to the cell phone of a membership worker who labored within the administrative sector underneath the pretext of getting to make a name to his agent.
Studies counsel the participant then discovered a video displaying the girl having “intimate relations” with a superior inside the membership.
This video was then shared with others together with Roma first group gamers. Membership administration turned conscious of it with each workers sacked.
On Friday, Roma denounced “a transparent try and assault and destabilise the membership and its group at a vital second of the sporting season”.
Roma are at the moment fifth within the Italian league and have certified for the quarter-finals of the Europa League the place they may face AC Milan.
The membership identified that “the dismissal was the consequence of a circumstance that, along with being opposite to the membership’s Code of Ethics … objectively decided the impossibility of continuous the working relationship with the membership, additionally in gentle of the duties carried out by each of them that required direct coordination with minors”.
“The details had been used to make imagine that there was sexual discrimination and disparity in therapy whereas the choice (to dismiss) the person concerned came about on the similar time,” as the girl, the membership added.
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