Ninth hearing , in the Court of Tempio Pausania , of the closed-door trial in which Ciro Grillo and three other Ligurian friends of his are accused of gang sexual violence against an Italian-Norwegian student: Francesco Corsiglia, Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria.
From 11.30 in the Tempese courtroom , one of the key witnesses, Alex Cerato, a childhood friend of the young woman, is called to continue her deposition .
The psychologist who attended the talks the student had with the carabinieri and the public prosecutor will also be heard in the courtroom.
The alleged sexual assault would have occurred in the night between 16 and 17 July 2019, after an evening at the disco, inside a villa in Porto Cervo owned by the family of comedian Beppe Grillo, Ciro's father.
Cerato , who was in Costa Smeralda in those days and who spent the first part of the evening of July 16 in the company of her friend and the group of boys inside the Billionaire, began her deposition in the last hearing , held a month ago . Seven hours of a tight question and answer that gave birth to a battle between lawyers.
Antonella Cuccureddu, lawyer who defends Corsiglia, had said, at the end of that testimony, that Alex Cerato had seen Ciro and the young woman kissing in the disco and had asked the girl many questions about the evening then spent in Grillo's villa, asking her friend for details "because very curious".
(Unioneonline/vl)
