Diplomats at work to free Ilaria De Rosa , the 23-year-old hostess from Treviso who has been locked up since the beginning of May in a prison near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on charges of drug possession and use . Crimes that are considered very serious by local justice.
According to the allegations, the girl was found with a joint in her bra during a police check in the middle of a beach party with some Tunisian friends. She denies all allegations.
THE STORY - Reassuring for the family, which has closed itself in silence, the news leaked after the visit of the consul general Leonardo Maria Costa to an administrative office, where the young woman was taken from the detention area. Ilaria appeared shaken «but she is fine and is in good physical and psychological condition» .
The young woman, according to a source, immediately declared herself totally innocent. She said that while she was having dinner with other people at a friend's house in the garden of a villa, they were suddenly surrounded by a dozen people in civilian clothes but armed , who stopped and searched them (she claims she was the only woman to suffer this rather intrusive treatment probably - she says - as a non-Arab).
She thought it was a robbery and only realized she was arrested once she was taken to a police station. Here she would have been formally interrogated only after 5 days and would have contested any type of charge regarding the consumption or possession of drugs. In the end he would have signed an unspecified document in Arabic without knowing what it was about .
According to what has emerged in the last few hours, she has been granted the mandate to have local lawyers able to assist her, in agreement with the consulate . Father Michele De Rosa, an Air Force officer serving at a NATO base, would also have flown to Saudi Arabia.
(Unioneonline/D)
