For a lawyer from Bergamo, Rita Duzioni, the withdrawal of her passport and the accusation of failure to keep animals in Malindi were triggered because one of her five dogs that she keeps at Adamson Place, a residence where she stays part of the year, bit Chetrin Gelmi, from Brescia for seven years in Malindi and since 2019 manager director of the Briatore resort 'Lion in the Sun', on the calf, that is in front of you. On April 16, 2023, when one of the dogs that came out of the residence bit the manager, the lawyer was not in Kenya but the accusation was made anyway.
Duzioni has adopted the 5 dogs that he uses to guard the residence and which, in his absence, are cared for by the service staff. On April 16, Gelmi was bitten by one of the animals as she was leaving the Briatore resort. The wound required ten stitches. "At that time I had been contacted by the lady and we had agreed on a compensation of 400 euros, which I had paid, receiving a receipt message which, unfortunately, I no longer have," says the lawyer. Then a series of emails with the manager and when Duzioni returned to Malindi she found out that the tourist police wanted to see her.
"When I showed up, they stopped me," she told the newspapers, "they took my fingerprints, notified me of the charge and transported me to court. Here they set a bail and took away my passport." During the trial, "the plaintiff's lawyer showed me a piece of paper with which he asked me to pay the equivalent of 20 thousand euros to withdraw the complaint and get my passport back." The story is part of the complaint with which Duzioni accuses Gelmi and his lawyer of extortion, also asking to have their passports back and to be able to return to Italy. Gelmi does not want to expose his point of view: "There is a trial underway - he said only - and I do not want to go into the merits of the facts".
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