The hearing of the closed-door trial at the court of Tempio Pausania against Ciro Grillo , Beppe's son, and his three Genoese friends, Francesco Corsiglia, Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria, opened an hour late . They are accused of group sexual violence against two girls, which allegedly took place on the night between 16 and 17 July 2019 , in the terraced house owned by the Grillo family, in Porto Cervo .

The opening of the hearing has been postponed because first there was a new hall of the Court to be inaugurated, named after Rosario Livatino, the magistrate murdered by Cosa Nostra on 21 September 1990, in Agrigento.

Neither of the four defendants , nor the two alleged victims , appeared in the courtroom .

LA MADRE DI GRILLO - Today in the courtroom , in front of the panel of judges, chaired by Marco Contu (on the sidelines Nicola Bonante and Marcella Pinna), several witnesses , including Parvin Tadjk , wife of Beppe Grillo and mother of Ciro , who on the night of alleged violence slept in the house next door. His deposition lasted exactly one hour. " I have not heard or seen anything abnormal, " he said in the courtroom as reported by the defense lawyers after the hearing. The two houses in the Porto Cervo residence are adjacent, separated by a wall on which, according to Tadjk, the boys usually knocked to warn of their return.

THE OTHER TESTIMONIALS - To the judges a friend of the woman, the witness Maria Cristina Stasia , guest of Parvin Tadjk in the night of the alleged violence, also reported that the morning after the alleged rape she saw a girl in a bathrobe and with a turbaned towel on her head to the patio of the house where the boys were staying . "He smoked quietly, didn't seem in trouble and didn't ask for help ," he explained.

The woman who took care of the cleaning in the terraced house of the Grillo, who reported seeing the two girls go away by car with two of the Genoese friends around 14.30 on 17 July, was also heard. They were calm and did not reveal any concern, he specified.

And then before the judges the managers and staff of the pharmacies and bars where the two girls and the defendants would have gone before the evening to the Billionaire and after the night to the Grillo house. "It's been too long , it's impossible to remember if those guys entered our bar. We also have a camera system, but the carabinieri came to us in April 2021, two years later, the images had already been deleted," he said. to the judges and then to the journalists Ivano Carta , one of the owners of the tobacco bar "Il caffè degli Artisti" in Porto Cervo, where the girl who reported being raped by Ciro Grillo and friends would go to buy cigarettes together with one of the boys accused.

"MANY CONTRADICTIONS" - " Numerous contradictions have emerged in today's testimonies that we will contest, even with documentary production, in the next hearings. has no relevance. " Thus Dario Romano, a civil lawyer who looks after the interests of one of the two alleged victims, at the end of the hearing.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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