The Turin gynecologist, involved in politics with the
Radicals and + Europe
and currently
a municipal councilor
in Sala Rossa, is under investigation by the Turin prosecutor's office for alleged
harassment
.
From what was reported by the newspaper La Stampa,
four complaints
were filed against him and the complaints ended up in a file owned by the deputy prosecutor Cesare Parodi.
According to the newspaper, the stories of
girls between 20 and 25
speak of groping and intrusive phrases of a sexual nature.
Episodes that would have happened for all of them on their first visit, which took place in her study.
The accused are assisted by the lawyer Benedetta Perego and the lawyer Ilaria Sala.
"We hope that light can be shed on this matter. The systematic nature that emerges from the stories gives us hope that if other women have had similar experiences they can find the courage to come out, to know that they are not alone", say the two lawyers.
Silvio Viale is a well-known name because he has always been
at the forefront of pro-abortion battles and promoter of the RU-486 abortion pill
.
"I don't know anything, I don't know what to say - says the gynecologist -.
I'm sorry, but I really can't understand. I don't even know the context you're talking about".
Before this story, two other
Me Too
cases had exploded in Turin.
One concerned the former director of the graduate school of Forensic Medicine Giancarlo Di Vella accused of sexual violence against five trainees.
Instead, the philosophy professor Federico Vercellone was suspended for lascivious behavior.
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