Mistreated gymnasts, the coach counterattacks: “It’s revenge”. The lawyer: “I’m calling Putin’s wife to testify”

“I didn’t mistreat the athletes. Those who accuse me do it out of revenge because they didn’t get the results. Mine were correct and non-punitive workouts”. You said it during the guarantee interrogation before the investigating judge of Brescia, Stephanie Fogliata, the rhythmic gymnastics coach of Nemesi of Calcinato (Bs) banned from coaching for a year as part of the investigation by the Brescia Public Prosecutor’s Office for alleged physical and psychological abuse of eight young gymnasts students of her rhythmic academy. “I loved and love each of those little girls: I don’t harbor any resentment towards them. One thing is certain: I’ve never touched them, not even with a finger. They paint me as a monster, but I’m not like that,” he said to the 31-year-old on leaving the Court. “She defended herself, denying all charges: point by point”, says her lawyer. The woman, who will also be heard by the Federginnastica federal prosecutor’s office on 1 February, was interrogated for over two hours, assisted by the lawyer Giacomo Marini, appointed in the past few hours. “I will have the wife (or rather the “secret partner” of Vladimir Putin” announced the lawyer.

“I’m referring to Alina Kabaeva” explains the lawyer Marini, “because she was a great gymnast and can explain what the methods must necessarily be: severe and hard, of course. But my assistant has always worked correctly and she has never gone beyond certain limits. She’s right, it was all a machination by girls who were struggling to establish themselves in a sport that is very tough and selective. Among them I also include ad Alice Taglietti. The yogurt story is totally false and baseless. In each I asked for the suspension of the activity to be revoked and for the reopening of Nemesis. There are several girls left without a gym but also without school, and this is deeply unfair. The hearing before the federal prosecutor’s office will take place on February 1st. How is Stefania Foglietta? She is very tried and surprised by the avalanche of hate that she has received. “Stefania returns to the gym, your gymnasts love you”, she reads on the banners hung in the past few hours outside the Calcinato gym.