Alberto Genovese chooses the abbreviated procedure, the trial begins in May. The former web entrepreneur already definitively sentenced to 6 years and 11 months in prison for drugging and raping two girls.

The judge Chiara Valori admitted the request for the alternative procedure, which provides for a reduction of one third of the sentence, conditional on the acquisition of documents, in particular the reports on the clinical and therapeutic path undertaken to detoxify from cocaine. "I expect justice to be done in a calm manner and away from the spotlight," said his defender, Salvatore Scuto.