Neither the four defendants nor the victim were present in the classroom at the time of reading the sentence
The judges of the Court of Tempio Pausania have sentenced to eight years, for sexual violence, Ciro Grillo (son of the comedian and founder of the 5 Star Movement Beppe Grillo), Vittorio Lauria and Edoardo Captain. A quarter accused, Francesco Corsigliawas sentenced to six years and six months of imprisonment. The prosecutor, Gregorio Capasso, had asked for the 4 boys for a 9 -year sentence in prison.
Ciro Grillo condemned
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None of the defendants was present in the classroom at the time of the verdict. There wasn’t even Silvia, the Italian-Norwegian student, Nineteen -year -old at the time of the facts such as the 4 defendants, the main accusator of the group. The lawyer Giulia Bongiorno had anticipated the absence of her assisted explaining that she advised her not to participate: “It’s as if it were here”. Initially the sentence was expected for it last September 3rd But it had been postponed for a serious mourning that had hit the president of the college judge. The four condemned boys will not go to prison immediately, there will first have to be the appeal process and possibly the appeal to the Court of Cassation.
the story
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THE Facts date back to the summer of 2019. On 17 July 2019 there would have been one Party at Grillo’s house in Costa Smeralda. Eight days after that evening, Silvia, in Milan, denounced the violence suffered. He said he was first raped by Corsiglia and then he had Immediately a group violence by others. Another girl present at the party, Roberta, denounced that she had undergone abuse after the investigators had found some photos in the smartphones of the boys who portrayed her and a sexual video shot while she slept on the sofa. Only in this way she knew she was the victim of the abuses and denounced the boys for group sexual violence.
the reaction
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The Defense of the 4 defendants They always denied the version told by Silvia claiming that it was consenting and highlighting the contradictions and some aspects that did not remember during the trial. But evidently this has not scratched the certainties of the judges. “I read the sentence on the phone to Silvia who broke out crying,” he said Giulia Bongiorno. “A crying cry that moved me, has not been able to tell me other than thanks, thanks,. It is a moment that has been waiting for for six years”.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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