Rome, April 28. (LaPresse) – “Tomorrow we will decide how to respond to the invitation to appear for April 30: whether to go or to exercise our right to remain silent. We don’t know the details of the charge of complicity in sports fraud, we are in a situation of total darkness. We ignore the elements of accusation, they are not known to us, that is why we are considering what initiative to take. Not showing up can be a valid hypothesis, I have to meet with the client today and tomorrow we will make a decision and release a statement.” This was stated by Antonio D’Avirro, lawyer for former referee designator Gianluca Rocchi, today during ‘A Pranzo con Chiariello’ on Radio CRC. “How is Rocchi? Well he’s not, he’s caught in a storm. Despite being a strong and capable person, the sports fraud charge is serious and therefore he is very affected. In the Paterna case, the issue is not so much whether Rocchi did it or not, but whether the circumstance of sports fraud actually materializes. The person who intervened corrected an error that was being incurred, because it is clear that that was rigor: therefore, the person who intervened, rather than altering the result of the match, which is the purpose that characterizes the crime of sports fraud, prevented the result of the match from being altered, corrected an error. Sporting loyalty was respected, because it was clearly a sensational and blatant penalty. Those who intervened prevented the race from being altered,” the lawyer continues. “When I see the documents, I will be able to realize how things went. I don’t speculate, I wait for the documents to be filed with me and then I will defend my client,” he concludes.
Soccer, Rocchi’s lawyer: “We’re challenging serious fraud. We’ll decide tomorrow whether to appear as prosecutors.”
Rome, April 28. (LaPresse) – “Tomorrow we will decide how to respond to the invitation to appear for April 30: whether to go or to exercise our right to remain silent. We don’t know the details of the charge of complicity in sports fraud, we are in a situation of total darkness. We ignore the elements of accusation, they are not known to us, that is why we are considering what initiative to take. Not showing up can be a valid hypothesis, I have to meet with the client today and tomorrow we will make a decision and release a statement.” This was stated by Antonio D’Avirro, lawyer for former referee designator Gianluca Rocchi, today during ‘A Pranzo con Chiariello’ on Radio CRC. “How is Rocchi? Well he’s not, he’s caught in a storm. Despite being a strong and capable person, the sports fraud charge is serious and therefore he is very affected. In the Paterna case, the issue is not so much whether Rocchi did it or not, but whether the circumstance of sports fraud actually materializes. The person who intervened corrected an error that was being incurred, because it is clear that that was rigor: therefore, the person who intervened, rather than altering the result of the match, which is the purpose that characterizes the crime of sports fraud, prevented the result of the match from being altered, corrected an error. Sporting loyalty was respected, because it was clearly a sensational and blatant penalty. Those who intervened prevented the race from being altered,” the lawyer continues. “When I see the documents, I will be able to realize how things went. I don’t speculate, I wait for the documents to be filed with me and then I will defend my client,” he concludes.
