Massimiliano Mulas, 45, the Sardinian man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Mestre, is aiming for a reduced sentence. A native of Gallura, born in Germany, he will appear before a judge on March 4th, when the fast-track trial begins. This involves a one-third reduction in a potential sentence: he faces up to 18 years.
The horrifying incident occurred at 6:00 PM on Thursday, April 10, 2025, in the entrance hall of an apartment building on Viale San Marco in Mestre. The young victim was returning from the gym and was on the phone with a friend. She took her house keys out of her pocket and opened the door, when Mulas, who had been following her, attacked her, wearing a balaclava , and pushed her inside, where he raped her.
Mulas was arrested a few hours later at the train station: he had gone to Padua to buy new clothes. She was then pushed and held in the entrance hall. He was framed by the fanny pack containing her documents, lost at the scene of the rape.
From the prison in Gorizia, where he had been held, the forty-five-year-old had expressed his desire to apologize to the eleven-year-old's family.
Meanwhile, the defendant is also facing charges for another rape, also of a minor, allegedly committed in Cuneo. This is the latest in a series of crimes attributed to him: when he was nineteen, in a village near Nuoro, Mulas severed a dog's head and stuffed it into a Dash can to deliver to a girl. The head was accompanied by a note: "Give me the money or I'll do the same to you." He has since been charged and convicted for sexual assaults throughout Italy.
Enrico Fresu