Case Grillo jr: At the start of the preliminary hearing, the battle moves to audio chats

(from the correspondent Elvira Terranova) – In the case of Grillo junior the battle now moves to a long voice message sent, the day after the alleged gang rape, by the young Italian-Norwegian to a friend from Oslo, Mya. Fourteen minutes and 45 seconds of audio in which the young woman cries, is desperate and confides in her friend, telling her what happened. And he says “Sex is sacred to me, I only do it with those I love.” Instead, that night between 16 and 17 July 2019, in the villa of the M5S guarantor, according to the girl’s story, there was not even a shadow of sacredness and love. Group violence, extreme sex, photographs with the genitals resting on the face of the sleeping friend. Half a bottle of vodka made to drink “by force”. There is all this in the young woman’s horror story to the investigators. After almost two years of investigations, already closed for the first time in November 2020, they asked for the indictment of the four young people, Ciro Grillo, Edoardo Capitta, Francesco Corsiglia and Vittorio Lauria. The accusation is very serious: group violence. The audio file was produced today, at the first preliminary hearing, before the gup Caterina Interlandi, by the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno who with Dario Romano represents the young Italian-Norwegian. While the other girl is represented by the lawyer Vinicio Nardo. After almost an hour in the council chamber, to decide on the preliminary issues raised by the parties, the GUP welcomed the production of series of newspaper articles, video interviews and statements requested by the plaintiff Giulia Bongiorno. Instead, the defense of the four Genoese young people asked for the translation of the audio file into English of the message that has so far remained in the memory of the phone of the victim of the alleged violence. “There are some sentences in youth slang that can be interpreted in a different way – explains the lawyer Mariano Mameli who defends Edoardo Capitta – for this reason we ask for a translated report”. But what emerges from the chat? “I was like out of myself – says the girl in the whatsapp voice – I let them do it”. And again: “For me sex is something I want to do with someone I love, and not sell myself like that, like many other of my friends here in Italy too. Because for me it’s kind of a sacred thing, if we can say so”. For the lawyers there may be ‘very relevant elements’ In the recorded voice, in English, filed today in the proceedings, in possession of the Adnkronos, the young woman vents with her Norwegian friend: “I always talk about how, like, in a disco a Sometimes I lose my mind and start having fun with people – he says to Mya – Okay, that’s okay. , okay, it happened, who cares, right? “. And again: “But, like, two nights ago I didn’t even have fun with anyone. And you know, I’ve always told you this, having fun with someone is ok, but having sex for me is something of, maybe … I don’t know, I hope what I’m saying doesn’t seem superficial to you, but for me sex is something I want to do with someone I love. “But for lawyers there can be” very relevant elements “also” in girls’ phones that can be very important for the decisions to be taken “, says the lawyer Gennaro Velle, lawyer of Francesco Corsiglia, one of the four suspects for gang rape in Costa Smeralda. Vinicio Nardo, lawyer of the second girl, speaking of the media outcry “of the affair tells Adnkronos:” The media hype about this affair is inevitable, but this does not become a political or exemplary process. It remains a bad story, of boys “.” We must allow the judges to do their job – he says – I do not want to invite indulgence but to invite caution and confidentiality. It seems to me that all the lawyers have maintained this attitude of confidentiality “.” There is great caution, because very young boys are involved, on both sides “, he concludes. The lawyers of the accused then exclude that” the the revenge porn investigation we read about in the newspapers “may concern” our clients “, as explained by the lawyers Alessandro Vaccaro and Gennaro Velle who respectively defend Vittorio Lauria and Francesco Corsiglia.” The request for indictment corresponds to the notices of conclusion. of the preliminary investigation and could not change and did not change. Moreover, the crime in July 2019 was not yet in force. “And he adds:” We have always said and clearly said the boys in the interrogations who have never released videos or photos. “But Bongiorno does not think so:” C ‘it was an in-depth investigation, a bounce of images and videos on which the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating “. Now the lawyers have until October 20” to be able to indicate the essential evidence and in the light of what will come out of any of our requests for an alternative rite or not “. Today the GUP has in the meantime accepted the requests for a civil action of the two offended parties.” The complaint is a cry of pain “The Northern League senator Giulia Bongiorno, leaving the court of Tempio Pausania, explains: “The complaint is a cry of pain, this cry of pain has been transformed into the form of a complaint. The natural seat is the preliminary hearing which has finally arrived. And that’s what my client told me. It is important for us that there is a judicial verification “.” In these days I have seen my client. It is evident that at this moment the girl wants a fixed point to be set with the preliminary hearing. You know how much time has passed. One of the problems in Italy is the length of the trials “, he adds.” You can imagine how much those who have an injury of this kind want to get to a point immediately – he says – Certainly for us this preliminary hearing is a first goal. It is important to us that it ends. The pain is already so much, a pain that continues to drag on without certainty is amplified. She is not happy but sees a fixed point in this preliminary hearing. “The preliminary hearing will continue on November 5 and November 12.