The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek Saab, Demanded this Wednesday the capture and imputation of a football commentator for “symbolic violence and promotion to hatred” after retreating and commenting on an obscene song against the wife of the Argentine star Lionel Messi.
Messi arrived in Caracas this week to join his country’s national team, which faced Venezuela on Thursday in the World Cup qualifiers. Qatar-2022.
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“Designated National Prosecutor 94 to request an arrest warrant and imputation to the subject Fernando Petrocelli for the crimes of symbolic violence and promotion of hatred for gender discrimination: against the citizen Antonella Roccuzzo, Lionel Messi’s wife, “Saab wrote on Twitter.
The prosecutor accompanied the message with a capture of a retweet made by the Venezuelan journalist, residing in Argentina, of a user who proposed “spicy songs” against the albiceleste selection.
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“Messi, Messi, it’s fine, you’re a crack, but Antonella is going to suck us all,” the publication said.
Messi and Antonella are already on the plane to Paris.
Antonella Rocuzzo’s social networks
Petrocelli retweeted the message: “Good song. Write down for Thursday. It would change the ending for the sensitive and it could be ‘with Antonella we will enjoy‘Jajaja “.
The 37-year-old journalist deleted the tweet, criticized by hundreds of users, and wrote an apology before the order of the Venezuelan prosecutor.
“I deeply regret that my comment made me offended the ladies, whom I have always respected at all times. I offer my most sincere apologies. My reference was to the track chants on Argentina. I made a mistake. It was not my intention to offend, “he said.
Venezuelan authorities have arrested people for comments on social media, usually when they are critical of the president’s government Nicolás Maduro or their relatives. Two firefighters for example were arrested in 2018 for a video of a donkey walking around the station calling him “President Maduro.”
I deeply regret that my comment yesterday offended the ladies, whom I have always respected at all times. I offer my most sincere apologies. My reference was to the track chants that exist in Argentina. I made a mistake. It was not my intention to offend.
– Fernando Petrocelli (@fpetrocelli) September 1, 2021
A family said that same year that she was evicted from a home that had been assigned to her by the government allegedly for mocking an “attack” against the president in a message posted on a Whatsapp group.
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Several of these cases have been framed in the Law against Hate, approved in late 2017 by the official Constituent Assembly and denounced by the opposition as an instrument to “criminalize dissent.” AFP requested a comment from Petrocelli without a response yet.
AFP