The four accused of gang sexual violence on trial in Tempio Pausania could appear in the courtroom to make spontaneous statements: Ciro Grillo, Beppe's son, and his three Genoese friends, Francesco Corsiglia, Vittorio Lauria and Edoardo Capitta, will certainly be in Sardinia for the resumption of the hearing behind closed doors, on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th June, but only at the end of Thursday's hearing will they decide together with their lawyers whether to speak voluntarily before the judges or to withdraw.
Thursday's hearing - starting at 11.30 - promises to be a technical hearing, but not without ideas for the prosecution and defence. The first task consists in appointing an expert to translate a chat of the alleged rape victim, the Italian-Norwegian student who was 19 at the time , dating back to 2018, i.e. a year before the facts alleged against the defendants, on the night of the 16th and on 17 July 2019 in Porto Cervo in the Grillo family's villa.
A very long chat, entirely in English, between her and a Norwegian friend of hers, in which the young woman confided in herself and admitted that she had a "problem": "I like meeting guys at the disco", without however being interested in having relationships with them. Two consultants from the civil party will then be heard in the courtroom: a consultant psychiatrist and a medical examiner. The latter will be asked to indicate in what physical condition the student should have been in that July night five years ago.
The girl stated several times that she had consumed a large quantity of alcohol during the evening spent on the Costa Smeralda, first with friends in the Zamira lounge bar on the Promenade du Port in Porto Cervo, then in the Billionaire nightclub. The student also said that she left in the late afternoon of July 16th for Porto Cervo from Porto Pollo, a town in Palau where she was on holiday, and that she drank two alcoholic cocktails there too. She then drank another glass of Prosecco wine as soon as she arrived at the house of her friend Alex Cerato, with whom she had an appointment to go out and spend the evening in the various clubs in Porto Cervo.
It was with Cerato that she went to the Billionaire where she met the group of Genoese people. The boys, having reserved a table, had two bottles of alcohol at their disposal which eleven people consumed. It will be up to the medical examiner on Thursday to establish whether the student was heavily intoxicated when she went to the Grillo house late on the night of July 16, where she claims to have been raped by all four defendants.
(Unioneonline)
