No blackmail and no hot videos.
The 58-year-old from Sassari rejects, today in the court of the Turritan capital, the charges of sexual extortion which, last Saturday, led to his arrest by the flying squad and his incarceration in Bancali.
A crime that he allegedly committed against a woman with whom, in 2016, he had had a brief relationship and from whom he allegedly demanded money, over 30 thousand euros, for six and a half years, in exchange for not disseminating a video that immortalized in intimate relationships. Before the judge for preliminary investigations Giuseppe Grotteria the man, defended by the lawyer Elias Vacca, made use of the right not to answer but made spontaneous statements.
He admitted the relationship and that he asked the woman for help in finding work but denied ever asking her for money. Just as he contested the episode of the sextape by inviting people to check his computer, already seized by the police, for a possible copy of it, claiming that he had never possessed it nor had he blackmailed his ex-partner with it. Finally, the suspect, contrary to what was initially reported, has a clean criminal record and therefore would not have committed a similar crime in the past.
The investigating judge's decision is expected between today and tomorrow, which could validate the arrest or choose the measure of house arrest for the man.