The trial in Tempio Pausania against Ciro Grillo , son of Beppe, and three of his Genoese friends, Francesco Corsiglia , Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria , accused of sexual assault of group about a 19-year-old Italian-Norwegian student and her friend .

After the stop a month ago , dictated by the lack of adequate video and audio equipment in the courtroom, this morning, having verified the efficiency of the monitors and microphones installed in recent days, the court, presided over by judge Marco Contu, called the first of the seven lyrics that should be heard today. It is the forensic medicine doctor Vera Gloria Merelli , of the Mangiagalli clinic in Milan, who together with two colleagues, the gynecologist Marta Castiglioni and the psychologist Laila Micci, visited the young Italian-Norwegian nine days after the alleged sexual assault .

However, the hearing was suspended after a few minutes due to unspecified technical-legal issues: the judges thus withdrew to the council chamber to make a decision.

Two defense consultants are also present in the courtroom as auditors : the coroner Marco Savio and the psychologist Lucia Tattilo .

The other witnesses who should testify during the day, called by the prosecutor Gregorio Capasso, are the owners of the Porto Pollo b&b where the two girls stayed during their holiday in Sardinia, and the kitsurf instructors who met the student the afternoon after the alleged rape Italian-Norwegian on the beach for a lesson.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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