(ANSA) - CASERTA, 09 NOV - The Court of Appeal of Naples sentenced the 67-year-old from Santa Maria a Vico (Caserta) to six years and four months in prison Vincenzo Di Monda, known as MagoErmes, accused of having drugged and raped a woman , his client, after having invited her to dinner;
the victim had turned to him to solve his love problems.
The judges ordered a slight discount on the sentence compared to the first instance ruling issued last February by the gup of the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere Ivana Salvatore, who had inflicted seven years and four months on Di Monda. The facts date back to July 2019 and came to light because the victim, after awakening at the magician's house in Santa Maria a Vico, drove into a numb and confused car, so much so that he went off the road several times and went to two hospitals, in Maddaloni. and at the San Paolo in Naples. From the analyzes carried out by the doctors, it emerged that the woman had been narcotized with the benzodiazepines and then raped. The carabinieri were warned and began to investigate, collecting the woman's complaint; the magician was then intercepted and his cell phone seized.The 67-year-old was then arrested in July 2020 and is still under house arrest. (HANDLE).
