Responsibilities still need to be clarified precisely in the trial, currently underway in the court in Sassari, which sees the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, as the injured party .
The defendant for defamation is Alessio Scurosu, a 42-year-old from Sassari who, according to the accusations, published in 2020 on the adult site Xhamster a fake video in which the prime minister's face was placed on the body of an actress engaged in sexual acts.
In today's hearing, before Judge Monia Adami , three witnesses of the public prosecutor Maria Paola Asara, who dealt with the computer investigations, were heard.
Among these, a superintendent of the Cyber Security Operations Center who retraced how the alleged author of the hot clip was identified, or at least the nickname of the person who inserted the video and the IP address of origin.
The subsequent search of the suspect's home, carried out by the postal police, did not reveal a computer and proceeded to seize the cell phones of both Alessio and Roberto Scurosu, the defendant's retired father.
For the latter, also reported, and defended like the first by the lawyer Maurizio Serra, the court has decided to put him on probation in 2024.
The postal police experts heard today reported that they found nothing on Scurosu's cell phone nor could they prove, from a technical point of view, that the video could be traced back to him .
The judge postponed the next hearing to the end of September, in which the witnesses of the civil party, represented by the lawyer Maria Giulia Marongiu, will be heard.
