"I'm trying not to read the news that concerns me because unfortunately it hurts me, very badly. I relive the same anguish. I look in the mirror and I see myself as if I were broken, a damaged person. I can't sleep, I struggle to concentrate, I see darkness in front of me. I know that everyone is worried about me and that makes me sad."
In an interview with Il Messaggero, the 17-year-old fencer said she had suffered a gang rape during a retreat in Chianciano.
"How can I compete - continues the girl - if those three are there? I can't get on the platform and see those people again, the same ones who hurt me. They scare me, but I don't want to abandon fencing ".
Then he retraces what happened on the night between 4 and 5 August: "In the evening we all went to the bar in front of the hotel to celebrate after the races in Milan. I only remember having a drink, then nothing. I woke up in a room - she says - semi-conscious, I had no energy, I couldn't move".
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