He would have repeatedly abused a girl who had the dream of becoming one model, posing as the one who would introduce her to famous faces from an almost inaccessible world and turn her career around. But she found the courage to report and her complaint led to thearrestwhich occurred on June 15Of Moreno Galli, 63 year old photographer owner of acasting agency based in Florence. The accusation is sexual violence aggravated by the abuse of dominant position on the victims. The provision of precautionary custody in prison was notified in the Tuscan capital, with the help of the Carabinieri of Florence, where the man resides, by the Rome police forces delegated by the Capitoline Public Prosecutor’s Office. Galli was taken to the prison of They tickle.
At the time of the facts 18 years oldthe Roman student filed the complaint with the Carabinieri on January 16th last. Here he recounted the violence he suffered since the first meeting with Galli. The two met for the first time during a casting in Trastevere and everything seemed to be going well. The girl, present at the meeting with various peers, some of her accompanied by her parents, was welcomed into a room by the photographer who explained to her how the selection procedure would be carried out. But then the situation worsened quickly: “After a girl took my hands body measurements – he says in the complaint – I sat down in Galli’s office and stayed alone with him. He told me that unlike the others, I wouldn’t have to pay for the photo books. Then when I headed for the exit, he closed the door pushing me against the wall, lifting my shirt and kissing me The breast. I was astonished, surprised, embarrassed, annoyed but despite these feelings, I I could not to move.”
The second date took place a few days after the first, this time in a B&B of Florence to spend an afternoon working with a photographer named Alex P. The latter went to pick up the young woman at the Santa Maria Novella station and, according to her testimony, forcefully tried to convince her “to take photos naked. I replied clearly that I didn’t want to even though he said that his intent was ‘to to undress the girls'”. Suddenly, during the meeting, it was Galli who burst onto the set: “he told me he had to take his body measurements again, he started to touch me. I was still, petrified, I only hoped that ended immediately. I was afraid he would do something to me bad“, we read again in the complaint.
The girl, however, faced with the prestigious job offers presented by Galli, he is unable to distance himself from him and, at the same time, from the violence. Which happen again and again, for example in one suites&spa of Trinità dei Monti, and almost always with the same justification: “I don’t want to do anything, be calm“. The last episode is also in Florence. The photographer and the girl meet for a job at a famous English boutique and, once finished, he convinces her to enter a hotel: “He started kiss mepushed me onto a radiator boiling hot, then against a table“. But this latest violence was the straw that broke the camel’s back, which led to the complaint and at the arrest of the man who promised her success: “I didn’t come first to shame and above all because I feel guilty since I never reacted, out of fear, or in any case continued to meet him. Then I realized that the right thing was to report this man for what he did to me, also because I would like to avoid that other girls like me, gripped by the desire to succeed in that world, can find themselves in these situations“. The Roman student could only be the latest of Galli’s victims. They had already been against him similar complaints In the 2009 And 2021 by three other young aspiring models who were interviewed again by investigators as part of the new investigations.
