«According to constitutional and European due process, cross-examination before the judge, criticism and refutation - even harsh - of the prosecution's sources of evidence, represent the best method of ascertaining the truth . The judge - and only the judge - is responsible for governing these procedures at the hearing, admitting the relevant questions and not admitting those that are irrelevant, superfluous or do not respect freedom".
It is a passage from the note released by the Presidents of the Bar Associations of Sardinia , to effectively express solidarity with Antonella Cuccureddu , lawyer who defends Francesco Corsiglia , accused in Tempio Pausania, together with Ciro Grillo and two other young people, for an alleged sexual assault of group against a girl, which allegedly occurred in Porto Cervo in the summer of 2019.
A stance following the controversy over how the cross-examination of the young woman was conducted by Cuccureddu, with crude and explicit passages , which - leaked - attracted criticism, insults and even threats on social networks to the lawyer, so much so that she lawyer announced a complaint with attachments with hundreds of posts with intimidating and defamatory content addressed to her.
In the midst of the case, here is the statement issued by the Presidents of the Bar Associations of Sardinia , namely Lorenzo Soro (President COA Nuoro), Gabriele Satta (President COA Sassari), Enrico Meloni (President COA Oristano), Matteo Pinna (President COA Cagliari), Vito Cofano (President of COA Lanusei), Carlo Selis (President of COA Tempio Pausania).
