Alberto Genovese burst into tears in the courtroom, who came out with swollen eyes at the end of the hearing dedicated for hours to his interrogation.
" I was abusing drugs, I no longer controlled reality and I realized only later, watching those videos, that the girl had expressed her dissent", said the now former web entrepreneur on trial for two cases of rape against as many models that took place in Milan and Ibiza between July and October 2020.
So in front of the gup Chiara Valori tried to justify her behavior towards the 18-year-old in the luxury penthouse Terrazza Sentimento, all in line with a defensive advice that spoke of a mental defect due to the massive use of drugs.
“ I'm sorry for what I've done and now I want to change my life ,” he said. Another justification that he wanted to use, all those who went to parties knew well that the theme was "sex and cocaine".
"UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND WILL"
Shortly before, the psychologist Chiara Pigni, consultant of the defenders Luigi Isolabella and Davide Ferrari, heard as witnesses, clarified that the personality disorders of Genovese, which led to difficulties in social and emotional relationships for him, led him to take refuge first in alcohol and then in cocaine.
At the record there is a defensive report in which it is claimed that the ability to understand and will of Genovese, a nerd who became a 200 million euro mister, was " at the moment at least greatly diminished ". Because "the cognitive alteration due to drug abuse prevented him from discerning the boundaries between the initial consent and the subsequent loss". In short, " he did not know when it was the right time to stop " with the 18-year-old, who was raped for several hours on 10 October 2020.
All elements repeated by the accused, who said he does not remember much of that long night and that only after seeing the footage of the cameras in his room did he understand that the girl had asked him to stop. "Then I had perceived her no as part of an economic bargaining, so much so that she had burned the money I gave her."
THE RAPE OF IBIZA
On the case of Ibiza there are testimonies and not images, the former founder of digital start-ups defended himself by talking about " consenting relationships ", but also saying that he understood that she was very ill that evening only now that she is in the community, at domiciliary.
JUDGMENT IN SEPTEMBER
The next stages of the trial: on 7 July the floor was given to the deputy Mannella and to the prosecutors Stagnaro and Filippini and to the civil parties, on 18 July the intervention of the defense and on 19 September the verdict.
(Unioneonline / L)
