Grillo jr trial, Corsiglia: “With ‘Silvia’ the sex was consensual”
In the words of Francesco Corsiglia, the only one of the 4 accused of gang sexual violence who agreed to undergo the exam this morning to the ongoing trial in Tempio Pausania, ‘Silvia‘, the girl who accuses them, had with him a completely consensual sexual intercourse. Indeed, he was preceded by advances – said the accused – that the Italian-Norwegian student made to him in the car, on the way from the Billionaire in Porto Cervo, where they had met on the evening of 16 July 2019, to the Pevero house used by Ciro Grillo’s family, where he was spending his holidays with the son of the founder of the M5S Beppe Grillo and his other two Genoese friends Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria. The latter, together with their friend Ciro, are the protagonists of the short video screened for the second time yesterday in the classroom. The three are also accused of violence against ‘Silvia’s’ friend, ‘Roberta’ (both fictitious names), of whom obscene photos were taken while she slept.
Their defenders have anticipated that the three boys will come to court to make spontaneous statements next autumn, before the end of the trial. Today the minutes of their depositions collected during the investigations were acquired. Corsiglia, who now lives abroad, appeared this morning before the court presided over by Marco Contu and answered questions from the public prosecutor Gregorio Capasso for over four hours, retracing the events of the night between 16 and 17 July five years ago in Costa Smeralda, as he told them when he was heard for the first time by investigators in September 2019 and then by the same prosecutor in April 2021.
After dinner the boy and ‘Silvia’ – again according to the accused’s story – go away and begin sexual intercourse in a bedroom, separated from the rest of the house by a curtain, a circumstance which does not allow privacy. “During the relationship they were disturbed by the other boys”, explains Cuccureddu, “and this annoyed both of them a lot, creating inconvenience, difficulties and the need to move from one place to another, always at home”. The sexual relationship is interrupted and the two boys film it in the bathroom, in the shower, away from the noise of the others. Afterwards, Corsiglia has the impression that she is disappointed, he thinks it depends on the less than intimate context. He leaves her to move to her room, where he stays alone for a while and smokes a cigarette. Later she moves to the patio, where she finds ‘Silvia’ with the other three boys. All four – Corsiglia reiterates – travel by car to the Artisti bar in Porto Cervo to go and buy cigarettes, a circumstance which the girl does not confirm. Upon returning to Pevero, Corsiglia goes to sleep until the next day at 2pm and she says she knows nothing about what happened afterwards between her three friends and ‘Silvia’. As for the images of the alleged sexual violence following the relationship with Corsiglia, “my client could say nothing”, stated the lawyer Cuccureddu, “because he is not in the video. They asked him to recognize the people and he ‘did”. In the next two hearings, scheduled for July 18th at 11.30am and for the following day, July 19th at 10am, Corsiglia will have to undergo cross-examination by the plaintiff’s lawyers, who represent the two friends, and by his own defenders.
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