(ANSA) - FLORENCE, APRIL 05 - The Florence Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence of the former carabiniere Pietro Costa to 4 years, one of the two soldiers accused of sexual violence for abusing two US students on the night between 6 and 7 September of 2017 in the Tuscan capital.
In the first instance, the accused was given a sentence of 5 years and 6 months.
The appeal court, reads the sentence, reduced the penalty "granted the general extenuating circumstances prevailing on the aggravating circumstance".
The judges also reformed the first instance sentence in relation to the perpetual ban from public offices, thus providing for the ex-military a temporary ban for 5 years.
The Attorney General had asked for confirmation of the court sentence for the former carabiniere Pietro Costa.
The civil parties had done the same thing, including the victim's family, assisted by the lawyer Gabriele Zanobini, the Municipality of Florence and the Ministry of Defense.
The defensive college of Costa had instead asked for absolution.
Pietro Costa was accused of the alleged abuse of one of the two young women.
The colleague on patrol, the former pinned up Marco Camuffo, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in abbreviated form in October 2018. In November 2021 both were definitively sentenced by the Supreme Court to 5 months for military action.
The story took place in September 2017 when the patrol formed by Camuffo and Costa made a stop at a night club in Piazzale Michelangiolo and here they offered the two girls a ride to bring them home, an accommodation in the historic center.
Camuffo and Costa hosted the two American students in the Arma service car.
When they arrived at their destination they went up with them to the building where the two were staying in Florence.
This was the moment, then reported to the judicial authority by the girls, in which sexual violence would take place.
(HANDLE).
When they arrived at their destination they went up with them to the building where the two were staying in Florence.
This was the moment, then reported to the judicial authority by the girls, in which sexual violence would take place.
(HANDLE).
When they arrived at their destination they went up with them to the building where the two were staying in Florence.
This was the moment, then reported to the judicial authority by the girls, in which sexual violence would take place.
(HANDLE).
