Trial of Ciro Grillo, Giulia Bongiorno who defends the victim of violence: “The acts make the chills come: the woman seen as a lower being”

«I will not be elegant as the public prosecutor, but it is my duty to recall some acts on time. I start by saying that that “Troi … of my assisted before was not but after the vodka what it became”. In my opinion, legally these words would be enough to define everything. He is repeatedly called Troi … not because he was at the beginning but because he becomes so after a while of vodka. Acts that make the chills come ». The harangue of Giulia BongiornoSilvia’s lawyer, as the girl she has always been called Ciro Grillo and his friends Edoardo Capitta, Vittorio Lauria and Francesco Corsiglia denounced for group sexual violence. The facts date back to 2019, yesterday the requests of the prosecutor Gregorio Capasso arrived at the Court of Tempio Pausania: nine years of conviction for Ciro Grillo and for his friends.

The prosecutor asked to grant the accused the generic attenuations, but defined “incompatible with logic and procedural results” the version of the defendants on violence and their reconstruction of the events that took place on 17 July 2019. She was not consenting. “He could not express any consensus” because all together “they had drunk, and a lot”.

So Giulia Bongiorno retraced the trial for Silvia. “My assisted was heard in this classroom with an exam that lasted 35 hours. 1675 questions were asked, the emotion has overwhelmed it 18 times to the point that it was necessary to stop the hearing. I don’t know if in judicial history there is another witness to which 1675 questions were addressed. I will remain I believe crystallized in this process the fact that the contradictory has not been limited. President, however: there are also the rights of the victim. I don’t know how all those questions can be endured. But she held up. He held 1675 questions always answering in a coherent way. When he doesn’t remember, he says I don’t know, he never invent. This girl has never been reported to date. How come no one has denounced for slander if he brings. Why? Everyone yesterday were concentrated to see Ciro in tears, my client too, she was also in tears, remember? Violence against women arises from a discrimination of man towards women. Be careful: here the problem is that still, in 2025, There are men who consider the woman to be lower and irrelevant her freedom and the will to self -determine. In this process this vision of the woman emerges, a woman whose consent is zero. “

“Why didn’t he scream?”, Everything is wrong with the girl’s questions in the Ciro Grillo trial

Silvia accuses Grillo and her friends of group sexual violence. In the last hearings, however, it seemed that she climbed on the defendants’ counter

In the hearing of 30 June Ciro Grillo asked for the floor and in tears he said that in December he will be a father and that he would like to be for his daughter. “I believe in justice and I would like to continue to believe it,” he added explaining that he graduated in law after his interrogation.

The violence would take place in the holiday home in Grillo, in Cala di Volpe, in Sardinia. With her there was another girl who slept during violence, but who equally signed a complaint against the boys. On their mobile phones, images were found that show them in sexual attitudes next to her sleeping.

This is the conclusion of the prosecutor. “There are six boys involved, two girls who have undergone what they have undergone and four boys who still live a dramatic situation. This process was not very easy. Usually in the requirements of the great processes the rumor is raised, emphasis is put. Here there is no need to be overwhelmed by emotions. We are in front of guys … we saw him cry yesterday, one of them. And before him, in this classroom, the girl. All of them have been involved in an affair bigger than them. It is clear that this we are sorry. “