Seneghe, gropes the barmaid: «For less than 10 seconds, shut up». On trial for sexual assault
Claudio Piras, 39, is accused of two episodes. The testimony of the young victim is in court todayForbidden groping against a young bartender . Now Claudio Piras, a 39-year-old originally from Trento, is on trial on charges of sexual assault .
Today in front of the college (president Silvia Palmas) the young victim of the abuse was heard as a witness, civil party with the lawyer Rossella Oppo. Answering the questions of the prosecutor Valerio Bagattini , the girl reconstructed the two episodes : the last one happened on July 30th.
“I was leaving the bar while he was coming back – he recalled – and while we passed each other he groped my butt ”. The young woman said she scolded him harshly, Piras (defended by the lawyer Agnese Fenu) in response " said that it had lasted less than ten seconds so I had to keep quiet ".
At that point the intervention of the police was requested, the very frightened girl reported what had happened and then filed a complaint . The other episode had occurred a few weeks earlier: in that case too the two had crossed paths and Piras would first have touched the young woman on the hip and then moved on to her bottom . The commander of the Carabinieri station Cesare Proietti and the soldier who spoke at the bar on that summer Sunday were also heard in the Chamber.