“I'm afraid I've ended up in something bigger than me. But I only told the truth, I want to face this story to the end".
This is what we read in the messages sent by the 22-year-old who accuses the third son of Ignazio La Russa, Leonardo Apache, of sexual violence. The rape allegedly took place in the home of the president of the Senate after an evening in the Apophis disco in Milan, on the night between 18 and 19 May.
«I love – she writes to a friend in the chats published by Corriere della Sera – I woke up from La Russa... but what problems do I have... or they drugged me. I don't remember well, it's not good, I screw up too much. I'm not normal, tell me about yesterday." "I love, I think he drugged you, but you didn't listen to me yesterday", replies her friend, because "you ran away and I never found you again".
“God, really? What happened? I don't remember anything», continues the alleged victim to whom La Russa jr himself told that they had had sexual intercourse. And the friend reconstructs: « Until he offered you the drink, you had been normal, you were extraordinary. We had also made strips there at Apophis », he continues, confirming that the two had taken cocaine. But «it's not what made you weird», because «it's after the drink that you got weird. You kept kissing him», and «I asked you if you liked him or not, and you said “Yes, I love him”».
At that point the 22-year-old wrote to her: "I love, he drugged me, of course" and then "I'm afraid, I'm leaving". And the friend: «Love, now you go back exactly to your home». Hours later the girl informs her that she is going to Mangiagalli: «I'm going to the hospital. My mother is coming to get me.' "It's right that you report the matter, but be really careful, his father is the president of the Senate", is the advice of her friend.
THE LEGAL – The investigations and the incessant work of the 22-year-old's lawyer, Stefano Benvenuto, continue on the case: «We are also working at night. The goal is to close the circle by identifying the subjects that can lead us to the truth. We are looking for them one by one."
The lawyer was in Rome, to search the nightlife scene. The girl, she tells Repubblica, is still shocked. «He is twenty-two years old, he was afraid to expose himself, but also ashamed to tell personal facts. I reassured her by saying that Italy is based on equality between men and women, one of the cardinal principles of the Constitution. If a girl has suffered, it is right that she should know the truth ».
Compared to La Russa «as a father, I understand. But he is also president of the Senate. From an institutional point of view, he cannot make those declarations. Sexual violence does not exist only in the case of coercion, but also if conditions of psychophysical inferiority are abused ».
Furthermore, "it was the legislator himself, not long ago, who wanted to extend the time available for complaints of sexual violence" . Emphasizing the use of cocaine, the young woman "did something contrary to the obligations" of the Istanbul Convention. Having then claimed to have seen the girl in the boy's bed «he became a witness of the trial. Now I no longer need to prove the presence of the girl in their home: he did it".
(Unioneonline/D)
