"Today's testimony gives us confirmation of the authenticity of what my client declared".
Thus sources of the defense of Silvia, the Italian-Norwegian girl
alleged victim of a group sexual violence contested against Ciro Grillo and his three other Genoese friends.
At the beginning of her deposition
Adelaide Malinverno, Silvia's childhood friend,
said she remembered little, but then, when the prosecutor Gregorio Capasso refreshed her memory by re-reading the report in the courtroom with the statements made to the carabinieri by her companion from Milan Duomo, confirmed the confidences received According to her story, Silvia would have called her the same night of the alleged violence, saying that she had suffered them while she was in a state of total incapacity, clouded by alcohol abuse.
Before the judges, the witness also confirmed that she had seen the photos of the bruises on Silvia's body, images sent to her by the Italian-Norwegian herself via Snapchat but not in the trial records because the social network automatically deletes them after a while.
The seventh hearing of the trial for gang rape of two girls is taking place at the Court of Tempio Pausania, on the night between 16 and 17 July 2019 in Porto Cervo, which sees defendants Ciro Grillo and three of his Genoese friends,
Edoardo Capitta, Francesco Corsiglia and Vittorio Lauria
.
It was supposed to be the day of the testimony of two of Silvia's best friends, the young Italian-Norwegian who denounced the sexual violence, but one of the two, Alex Cerato, did not appear: he sent the judges a request for impediment to due to commitments related to his university career that did not allow him to move from Milan