“How was she dressed?”: the query in court docket to the harassed girl who has been ready for justice for 9 years

9 years later, a trial for the episodes of sexual violence reported by the cashier of 1 betting room. The defendant was an everyday customer to the company who, in response to the costs, in two eventsin September and October 2015, he aggravated closely the girl (married with two youngsters) simply exterior the membership.

As we speak prosecutor Lisa Bergamasco requested for him one 12 months and two months of imprisonment. The employee (now a civil occasion with the lawyer Michela Ancora) reported the details – with an correct description of the attacker – in a number of days however, in response to what emerged in the course of the trial, she was formally heard by the judicial police solely in 2023. In actuality the police had already carried out the investigations instantly, recovering a video from a safety company in Milan; the girl he acknowledged within the {photograph} the accused al 100%.

The protection supported the thesis of alternate of individual and the defendant underlined that, in contrast to what was mentioned on the trial, he has continuously worn glasses since 1991 because of the penalties of an accident at work. A controversy arose when her lawyer requested the girl how she was dressed: “Working in a betting store with a predominantly male clientele, I by no means put on skirts or low-cut, provocative clothes.” The lawyer then specified that the query solely served to make clear the way of the assault: “I’d by no means have allowed myself to decide the woman, to whom all my solidarity goes.”