[Romano] 🚨 Official: Serie A sports judge decides against any sanction in allegations of racism involving Inter’s Francesco Acerbi and Napoli’s Juan Jesus. No sanction, Serie A statement reports.

by ForzaInter_1908

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  1. [Sportface] No proof that Inter defender Francesco Acerbi racially abused Napoli defender Juan Jesus has been found. The Italian is acquitted and will not face suspension

    [Mari] The Serie A sports judge has acquitted Francesco Acerbi of Juan Jesus’ accusations of racist insults due to lack of evidence.

    “Noting that in this case the sequence of events and the context of the behaviors is also theoretically compatible with a different reconstruction of the facts, the proof of the offense having certainly been achieved but the seriously discriminatory content remaining confined to the words of the offended party, without any further support external probative and circumstantial evidence, direct and indirect, also of a testimonial nature;
    Therefore, considering that in this case the minimum level of reasonable certainty regarding the definitely discriminatory content of the offense committed is not reached

    PQM

    not to apply the sanctions provided for by the art. 28 CGS towards the footballer Francesco Acerbi”

    [Mari] Acerbi acquitted, the reasons: for the Sports Judge there is no audio, video or even testimonial evidence. It’s one person’s word against the other’s word “the discriminatory content of the offense, without this calling into question the good faith of the Napoli player, appears to have been perceived only by the “offended” player (Juan Jesus), therefore without p support of any external evidentiary evidence , which is audio, video and even testimonial”

    [Mari] Acerbi, the sports judge: “The imposition of such burdensome sanctions must be correspondingly supported by a minimum amount of evidence, or at least by serious, precise and consistent evidence in order to achieve reasonable certainty in this regard”

  3. Watch the rival fans go full meltdown for absolutely no reason. Thank goodness it went this way, you can’t just disqualify a player because what could have been said without a single serious evidence or witness.

  5. Thank god it was a nothingburger afterall, I was scared for a solid minute tho. The question is will Juan Jesus face any sanctions for the false allegations?

  6. Finally a fair verdict. Shame that many people even here booked him as a racist scum without any proof. Acerbi siamo con te!

  7. Whatever Acerbi said in Italian, people should probably not say that anymore…

  8. Yeah there’s no way to prove shit on either end. Good to bury

  10. Dalle motivazioni:

    >”il contenuto discriminatorio, senza che per questo venga messa in discussione la buona fede del calciatore della Soc. Napoli, risulta essere stato percepito dal solo calciatore “offeso” (Juan Jesus), senza dunque il supporto di alcun riscontro probatorio esterno, che sia audio, video e finanche testimoniale”

    Si è evitato di creare un precedente pericoloso. Data l’assenza di prove che comprovassero la versione di JJ, era impensabile che lo condannassero ad un minimo di 10 giornate per razzismo.

    L’altra opzione paventata dai giornali negli ultimi giorni, le 3/4 giornate per condotta gravemente antisportiva, era una cagata perchĂ©…quale sarebbe stata la natura della condotta in assenza dell’elemento razzista?

    Quindi era una situazione da o bianco, o nero, esclusa ogni altra pena ‘salomonica’ .

    Opinione personale: se la pena minima fosse stata piĂą mite, avrebbero pure “fatto giurisprudenza” condannando acerbi senza prove, tanto sono abituati a fare giurisprudenza con l’Inter (non scordo le 3 giornate a porte chiuse post Inter Napoli del 2017, unicum mai piĂą ripetuto). Ma se il minimo è 10 giornate…eh figa, diventa difficile fare un provvedimento “show” che placasse l’onda emotiva generata dalla vicenda.

  11. Honestly right decision. There just wasn’t enough evidence and Acerbi’s side seemed extremely plausible.

    Overall just feel weird about the entire thing and hate that Juan felt discriminated against because nobody deserves to feel that.

  12. honestly, there were no evidence so this is the right call imo
    if there were, he would have got sanctioned no doubt about it but as things stand, this is the correct decision

  13. AITA for laughing at people’s outrage over this decision?

  14. It’s obviously no surprise but the /r/soccer thread is such a disaster on this topic.

  15. I did not speak on this prior to the judgement but now that this bullshit is beyond us, where are all you “iNtEr iS BroTherZ of the wORld, wE sHOuLd kiCk hiM” who has been yapping on since the game? Gone back to your holes? 

  16. I gotta say I’m surprised, but I’m happy we won’t lose him.

    Everything seemed to suggest he was going to face some manner of suspension, as all the video made it look really bad for Acerbi. The pointing at Thuram thing especially had me preparing for the worst.

    But if it’s really just one guy’s word vs. another and there’s no evidence, this is the only decision. Innocent until proven guilty, and guilt couldn’t be proven here.

    Whatever he said, I hope this was a wake up call for him to be more sportsmanlike going forward.

  17. There is no place for racism in Serie A.

    There is also no place for mob justice and taking away a player’s livelihood while harming Inter and the Azzurri without some level of proof.

    Even if the burden of proof was the lowest level, one man’s word against another’s, especially when it is in a loud stadium with adrenaline running hard, is not enough to justify the punishment.

    Bad situation, unfortunate, but the outcome is just.

    From a football prospective, this is very good for the Empoli match where Sommer may be out and also for the Euros.

  18. So much for the video showing the lip reading of him saying the word. Typical newspaper fake news.

  19. So, where are all those who were on this forum asking Inter to kick him out?

  20. Innocent until proven guilty. And I’m not going to sit here and assume what was said. A person cannot be punished without any proof.

  21. From recent news, Juan Jesus has no possibility to make an appeal. Case closed, i hope so. If he wants more, he can go to civil court, but without evidence, no chance to win something. He better shut up.

  22. Good, it’s a man’s word against a man’s word, both of which were reasonable.

    But without cause to believe otherwise, stand with your players.

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