Giulia Schiff, the former pilot officer student who in 2019 had reported being the victim of hazing with a "flight baptism" was officially expelled from the Air Force.
While eight sergeants of the 70th Wing of the Aeronautica di Latina are on trial for that matter, for multiple aggravated personal injuries in competition, first the Lazio TAR and now also the Council of State have declared his appeal against the expulsion from the armed force unfounded, also condemning her to pay court costs.
EXPULSION - The accusation that the Air Force had made against the 22-year-old originally from Mira, in the province of Venice, was that of "military and professional inability". For the girl, that judgment issued at the end of her training course and notified in 2019, was only a retaliation for having denounced the practices in use after obtaining the pilot's license: that baptism of flight that she had touched in April of 2018.
With her lawyers, Schiff had pointed out to the administrative judges that while the perpetrators of that violent "initiation rite" had not received any disciplinary action, the penalties that her superiors had inflicted on her had increased. A version that did not convince the magistrates. If the judges of the Lazio TAR had already considered this an "apodictic statement not supported by any concrete evidence", also the Second Section of the Council of State excluded "retaliatory intentions" behind the expulsion. The "facts subject to ascertainment in the context of a criminal proceeding cannot be uncritically assumed as certain in the administrative judgment", wrote the judges.
THE "BAPTISM OF THE FLIGHT" - According to the accusation made by the military prosecutor to the eight sergeants on trial, the girl after being lifted from the ground and held firm by the legs and arms was hit violently on the backside with wooden punches, she had been hit her head against a wing and finally thrown into the pool. A sequence immortalized in a video in which she is heard screaming "you hurt me" and she is seen crying and sobbing.
(Unioneonline / D)
