New Year’s rape in Primavalle, that’s why the judges sentenced Patrizio Ranieri

“Will be was raped twice by Patrizio Ranieri ». Thus the Court of Rome Motiva la Motiva la sentence to five years and six months Import to the young twenty -two year old for rape against a girl who, at the time of the facts, was just 16 years old. The judges, in the 84 pages of reasons, explain that the minor – indicated with the name of fantasy “Sara” – was the victim of abuse on the night of 31 December 2019, during one Feast organized in a villa in Primavalle.

A decisive aggravant for the sentence is the condition in which the girl was poured At the time of the facts: “Sara, today graduating in law, on that occasion is still a minor and in a state of minors psychic capacity (…) because of the substances taken”, the judges write.

The Court recognized that the sexual intercourse between Ranieri and Sara were three. However, only two of them were considered violent: “It is not possible to say with certainty that already on the occasion of the first sexual relationship Sara, established civil party through the lawyer Felicia D’Amico, was at least drunk”. For this episode, which took place around 9:30 pm, the judges exclude violence, considering it “consensual”.

Instead, after 11 pm that, according to the reconstruction of the court, the girl’s conditions change drastically. “Sara has a sort of blackout and a possible total state of inability,” reads the sentence. It is in this state that is brought to a bathroom, where it undergoes three violent relationships: one with Ranieri and two others with two minors, currently on trial separately. The violence causes them bruises, an element that the judges define relevant: “Sara herself says that it would never have accepted such violent relationships that they leave them bruised”, reads between the motivations.

The context of the party – a point on which the court insists – contributes to outlining the climate of the evening. “A group of girls, all wealthy, including Sara, indicated as parioline, and a group of boys, allegedly less wealthy, all of Primavalle”. According to what emerges from the reasons, the boys “only want the presence of girls (…) because The intent is to know them for sentimental or sexual purposes. Purposes of which the guests are aware “.

Ranieri himself, during the investigation, clearly described the spirit of the evening: “Have sexual intercourse, drinking and taking drugs, as well as having fun and dancing».

For the court, therefore, the evening takes place in An environment where “there is ease of sexual promiscuity together with ease in the use of drugs and psychotropic drugs». And in this climate, the judges explain, «some boys bother, touch and hail young people. Someone gets angry. Many drink and use cocaine: among them, Sara too ».

The reconstruction of the facts

The rape took place In the night between 31 December 2019 and 1 January 2020 In a house in via del Podere del Fiume, in the Roman district of Primavalle. Dozens of teenagers participated in the feast.

The complaint came two days later: It was the same girl who told everything to the carabinierigiving way to an investigation that involved several young people. The investigations, made complex by the large number of present and by the state of alteration of many participants, were able to count on fundamental telephone interceptions.

In January 2022 three precautionary measures were issued For sexual violence and sexual violence of aggravated group. Ranieri and another boy ended up under house arrest, while a third was subjected to the obligation to sign and residence. In the ordinance that ordered the measures, the judge for preliminary investigations Tamara de Amicis wrote that the suspects had taken advantage of “a situation of promiscuity, lightness for the current party, and above all of great diffusion of drugs ». A condition that “annihilated the victim’s will And he greatly lowered the threshold of the attention of the other participants in the party “, who did not intervene” when the girl was particularly ill, abandoning her to a fate of pain “.

According to the accusation, the three young people would “spoke” in the bathroom where the victim had been brought, while others served as a pole to prevent someone from interrupting the scene.

At the end of the process, The prosecutor had asked for a 12 and a half years sentence for Ranieri. The Court has reformulated the charge from group sexual violence to individual violence On the minor, reducing the sentence to five and a half years. Ranieri’s lawyer Valentina Bongiovanni has already announced the Appeal on appeal.