Entrepreneur Maria Rosaria Boccia, a key figure in the affair that led to the resignation of then-Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano last September, now risks being sent to trial in Rome on charges that include stalking the RAI journalist. The Prosecutor's Office has notified the suspect of the conclusion of its investigation, which usually precedes a request for indictment . Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini and his deputies Giulia Guccione and Barbara Trotta also accuse the woman of assault, unlawful interference in private life, and defamation . Among the various charges is a chapter alleging false statements in the CV that Boccia had prepared for the organization of events . The injured parties in the proceedings are Sangiuliano, his wife, and the former chief of staff of the ministry, Francesco Gilioli.
The proceedings were initiated following Sangiuliano's complaint, which arrived just weeks after the controversy erupted over the businesswoman's failed appointment as a director of the MIC . This earthquake cost the current RAI correspondent from Paris his job, and he too was investigated for allegations of embezzlement and disclosure of official secrets. The case was later dismissed. In the stalking indictment against entrepreneur Maria Rosaria Boccia, prosecutors write that the suspect, "through repeated obsessive behavior and penetrating control of Sangiuliano's private, professional, and institutional life—with whom she was having an extramarital affair, even after the final breakdown of their relationship—caused him to experience a persistent and severe state of anxiety and fear, which manifested itself in severe stress, significant weight loss, and suicidal thoughts, forcing him to alter his lifestyle, compromising his public image, and inducing him to resign from his institutional position."
Boccia, the document states, " initially asked in a veiled manner and then increasingly explicitly to work together under the Minister's nomination as a trustee, in order to justify her daily presence at ministerial offices . At the same time, she implemented actions aimed at discrediting her closest collaborators, with progressive isolation, and made constant requests to be informed of institutional meetings or meetings with her own staff ." According to the prosecutors, the businesswoman "made multiple insistent requests to hand over the cell phone, which Sangiuliano also used for institutional contacts, for inspection, even demanding the handover of passwords or, in any case, the unlocking of applications or, alternatively, to allow her indiscriminate remote access " and " imposed on the then minister, at least starting June 11, 2024, not to wear his wedding ring and, finally, to take it away ." A series of "harassing" incidents are then listed. "Remember that life is like a restaurant: no one leaves without paying." The message was posted by the entrepreneur on Instagram in August 2024 and, according to investigators, is "punitive" against the former minister for having "been on an official visit to Egypt with his wife."
The businesswoman " forced the man to sleep away from home, staying alone in a B&B in Rome, and choosing his own food, forcing him to lie to his wife, telling her he was traveling to Naples ." On August 3 of last year, "after he had refused the previous day to sign a confidentiality agreement as requested and to come visit her in Naples to talk, she published photos of Sangiuliano at the beach in Positano in a swimsuit and of the two of them at the Coldplay concert at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome without his consent, telling him she would remove them if he came to Naples, dictating the timing and modality of his trip." And again: on August 8, "she made Sangiuliano believe she had been feeling unwell due to her pregnancy—which never happened—and that she had gone for a medical checkup at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, where, however, she never went." Finally, the charge of aggravated assault is linked to what happened in Sanremo on the night of July 16th to 17th, when Boccia, according to the complaint, allegedly struck Sangiuliano, injuring him in the head. The wound was later immortalized by the former minister himself in a photo.
(Unioneonline)
