Via the Tribunal of Tempio Pausania at the preliminary hearing to define the position of Ciro Grillo (son of the Guarantor of the Five Stars) and his three friends Edoardo Capitta, Francesco Corsiglia and Vittorio Lauria, all accused by the Public Prosecutor for group rape against two Milanese girls met on the evening of July 16, 2019 inside the Billionaire nightclub in Porto Cervo.
The lawyer Giulia Bongiorno represents the girl from whose complaint the affair arose, while the defendants who chose the ordinary of sentence) and who face up to eight years in prison.
"Every time the story re-emerges in the media, for my client it is like spreading salt on a still open wound, the media emphasis was a heavy test", said Giulia Bongiorno on her arrival at the temple court. "Now we are in the natural place, let's see what happens," he added.
The facts date back to July 2019, when young people met at the Porto Cervo nightclub. At four in the morning the boys and girls take a taxi to the villa in Cala di Volpe used by the Grillo family.
Here, according to what was reported by the young women, who filed a civil action, in the morning around nine Corsiglia would have forced the young woman assisted by Giulia Bongiorno to non-consenting sexual intercourse. Later, according to the accusation, Ciro, Vittorio and Edoardo induced the eighteen-year-old to drink half a bottle of vodka, abusing her one after the other, complete with images and videos that ended up on social media. The four then indulged in obscene acts while the other young woman slept on the sofa, again taking pictures and filming everything.
The report of the raped 18-year-old, of Italian-Norwegian origins, will arrive in Milan about ten days later. Then the opening of the investigation.
"Except for preliminary exceptions, which, however, were already presented in the last hearing, today we will present our requests", announced the prosecutor of Tempio, Gregorio Capasso, entering the court.
(Unioneonline / vl)
