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Juve, Buffon disqualified for blasphemy: skip the derby

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TURIN. From a fine to a one-shift disqualification. The blasphemy pronounced by Gigi Buffon during Parma-Juve last December 19 costs the Juventus goalkeeper dear, after the appeal presented by the Federal Prosecutor. The first sentence of the national Federal Court, which had decreed a penalty of 5 thousand euros, was today overturned by the Federal Court of Appeal. The judges established that Buffon had actually uttered a blasphemous expression, a doubt that had emerged in the first instance after having listened to the player, and so the decision was made to stop him for a round as already occurred to Cristante (Rome) and Lazzari (Lazio ) in this season. Buffon, therefore, will not be able to play the derby on Saturday at the Grande Torino stadium.

The blasphemy of the Juventus goalkeeper had not been reported by the referee or even by the TV test, but the Federal Prosecutor had opened an investigation after a video on social media in which Buffon’s exclamation due to an empty stadium was heard. The referral had been accepted in part and this explains the reason for the 5 thousand euro fine: “The peaceful circumstance that the blasphemous expression, in the present case, was not objectively heard by viewers during the live broadcast takes on an extenuating value, as well as the partial admission of guilt of the deferred person ». Buffon, in fact, had justified himself in this way to the Federal Prosecutor: «Sometimes it happens to me to disguise with an uncle, sometimes unfortunately I run away and I sometimes blaspheme, but I can’t say if it happened to me on that occasion in Parma. There is no visual image of what I am saying and I am therefore unable to answer ».

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