Ciro Grillo’s choice: he will not be questioned. “She wasn’t involved.” The video replayed in the classroom

No questions in the classroom. Ciro Grillo chose not to speak before the judges of the Tempio Pausania court who are trying him and his three Genoese friends for gang sexual violence. His lawyers – Enrico Grillo (his cousin) and Andrea Vernazza – will not guide him in the reconstruction of what happened on the morning of July 17, 2019.

The uncertainty

If anything they will listen to the answers of Francesco Corsigliaapparently theHe is the only one of the four defendants who, in theory, should appear in court, Today. However, her lawyers – Antonella Cuccureddu and Gennaro Velle – yesterday afternoon at the end of the hearing had it recorded in the minutes that “only tomorrow morning will the reservation be lifted” on her presence in court and on whether or not she wants to speak before the panel. In short: too much tension on you, everything will be decided at the last minute even though he has prepared for a long time to face this day.

And instead like Ciro (who is the son of Beppe, founder of the Five Star Movement) they would have already chosen to do not take the exam in the classroom also Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria. Their lawyers (Ernesto Monteverde, Mariano Mameli and Alessandro Vaccaro) confirm that in any case they will not be in Tempio today and announce future spontaneous statements, “at the end of the trial”, before the verdict. The scene therefore, today, will be all for Francesco Corsiglia, assuming he finds the path of serenity to appear in the courtroom.

«Consensual intercourse»

In this trial he is accused only on the alleged basis Silvia’s rapeone of the two girls who accuse the group of four friends. Robertathe other girl, according to the prosecution’s reconstruction, he was asleep while three of them (and not Corsiglia, in fact) took photographs of a sexual nature next to her while she was sleeping.

But even if his name is not linked to the facts concerning Roberta, Corsiglia is still accused (like everyone else) of group sexual violence for the most serious episode, that is, the alleged rape of Silvia (the names of the girls, let us remember, they are not real).

In the short videos found he doesn’t appear in one of the boys’ cell phones but the girl says she heard his voice and swears that, before being raped by everyone, it was Corsiglia who abused her, alone. “No abuse” he always replied. “We had a consensual relationship.” And his three friends say that while they were with Silvia he slept in another room.

Credibility

No photos, no videos, friends who exclude him from the sexual scene group… There would be enough to make him hope for a different trial outcome from that of the others. But any difference in verdict would obviously have to take into account her credibility…
It’s useless to ask the lawyers: they all deny it. Nevertheless the choice to bring Corsiglia into the classroom — even if in the end he doesn’t feel like speaking — marks a previously non-existent gap between the defences who have always proceeded compactly.

Finally, it should be noted that yesterday the video of the alleged violence was surprisingly reviewed in the courtroom. A few frames had already been projected when Silvia was heard. But now here it is again, that video. “Let’s look at it again” proposed the lawyers of the defendants. And this is because Marina Loi, consultant for the civil party, told the judges that the girl did not participate. You used the word “passive” to define her behavior during the alleged violence. And it is to contest that word that the boys’ lawyers asked and obtained, precisely, to see him again.

The coroner Lorenzo Marinelli was also consulted, also called into question by the civil party. He talked about Silvia’s “full-blown inebriation”.that morning, which then she would not have been present to herself for the “consensual relationship” described by the boys. «A scientific confirmation of the fact that there could not be consensus», commented Giulia Bongiorno, her lawyer.