Francesco Corsiglia - friend of Ciro Grillo and defendant with him in Tempio Pausania in the trial for sexual violence - released spontaneous statements, reiterating his non-involvement in the facts, under investigation this time in Genoa for another alleged violence that occurred in a nightclub in the capital Ligurian at the end of July.
Corsiglia, defended by the lawyer Gennaro Velle, had asked to be questioned. "We maintain the strictest confidentiality", the lawyer's comment. In addition to Corsiglia, two other young people who were in the nightclub where the harassment allegedly took place that evening were also heard.
It was the boy's defense that asked to hear other witnesses. The public prosecutor Federico Panichi will close the Carabinieri investigations in the coming weeks. From what emerges, the interrogations would not have changed the accusation.
The boy is under investigation for sexual assault against a nineteen-year-old who, according to the accusation, he had lifted her top while dancing in a club in Corso Italia, the Genoese nightlife promenade. After the gesture the young woman allegedly slapped him in the middle of the track.
The young chef is on trial for an alleged rape that occurred in July 2019 in Sardinia, together with Ciro Grillo, Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria.
The alleged victim in this case is a 21-year-old Italian-Norwegian student.
A trial, the one being celebrated in Tempio Pausania, which is causing discussion.
The lawyer Antonella Cuccureddu, one of the lawyers in the defense pool, was in fact threatened via social media after the controversy raised by her questions to the main accuser of the four, defined as "from the Middle Ages" by the girl's lawyer.
As regards the Genoese affair, Corsiglia was in Liguria for three days in July. «After ripping my dress he begged me not to report him, telling me he would be in big trouble because he already had problems. But what he had done seemed too serious to me and so I immediately formalized the complaint", the young Genoese woman told the police.
