Ciro Grillo, the alleged victim: «They forced me to drink, then the blackout. After the rape I attempted suicide"
The dramatic testimony of the Italian-Norwegian girl, absent the four defendants in the Tempio courtroom
Forced to drink. "I didn't have the strength to react, they forced me to drink a bottle of vodka, and from then on there was a blackout."
The Italian-Norwegian girl said this in the Tempio courtroom, called to testify as the alleged victim of the gang rape that occurred on the night between 16 and 17 July 2019 in Beppe Grillo's villa in Porto Cervo.
A circumstance that further embarrasses the four defendants: according to what was reported in the courtroom, the girl, 19 years old at the time, that evening was not capable of understanding or wanting, much less giving her consent to sexual intercourse. And, even worse if proven, she would have been induced into that condition by the same defendants who would then have abused her .
The young woman's testimony was dramatic: she had an emotional breakdown when she started talking about what happened that evening. Then she recovered and began to answer the questions of prosecutor Gregorio Capasso.
A night that marked his life forever " I attempted suicide, I practiced self-harm, I ran on the tracks to get hit by trains ", he said.
« A destroyed, devastated girl who gave a deposition between sobs . Seeing a person who spoke of suicide, of acts of self-harm, of running towards the tracks to be put under the train is not easy", commented the plaintiff's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno.
The four boys under accusation were absent from the courtroom: Ciro Grillo, Francesco Corsiglia, Vittorio Lauria and Edoardo Capitta .
In recent days, the defense had indicated their willingness to use the minutes of the statements, thus avoiding the girl's deposition, but the prosecutors and the civil party's lawyers asked for her to be heard anyway.
