Cataldi in court: «My wife kicked by the ultras? Minimal protest." Perplexed judges: "Does this seem normal to you?"
The Lazio footballer testified in the trial in which 15 Genoa ultras are accused of blackmailing the club: the facts date back to 2017
Lazio footballer Danilo Cataldi was heard in Genoa as a witness in the trial of 15 Genoa ultras for blackmailing the club . The midfielder spoke in particular about an episode that occurred on 7 May 2017, when his wife was attacked by a group of fans: according to the Prosecutor's Office, the former ultras boss Massimo Leopizzi «forced the footballer and his wife not to be photographed by a family of Genoa fans at the end of the Genoa-Inter match because he was unworthy", and attacked the player's wife, hitting her with a kick .
In the courtroom Cataldi would have downplayed it: «Football to my wife? It was a minimal protest," he said. A statement that left the judges perplexed: "If it seems normal to you that a fan kicks his wife..." , they observed. Then the midfielder, pressed by the magistrates, confirmed the pushing and physical aggression towards his wife.
Cataldi defends himself and speaks of "partial and instrumental reconstructions, as well as harmful to my person". “For clarity – he continues -, I have not minimized the episode in which my wife, the person I love and respect most in the world, was involved ,” he wrote in a story on Instagram.
(Unioneonline/L)
