UDINE. There was the sexual violence consumed at the former Piave barracks on August 28, 2019, but not the gang rape, which the same victim, an Albanian minor, had said she suffered the month before in an unspecified place in Udine.
Of the three defendants, all in prison – two in custody for this cause and one under sentence of drug offenses -, therefore, only one, 25-year-old Pakistani Dilawar Abbas Jutt, was found guilty and will now have to pay damages: 9 years of imprisonment and 50 thousand euros to the mother of the girl who, as exercising parental authority, filed a civil action with the lawyer Consuelo Zanini.
The sentence was issued on Thursday 24 June, at the end of more than three hours in the council chamber, by the collegiate court presided over by judge Paolo Alessio Vernì (on the sidelines, colleagues Roberto Pecile and Camilla Del Torre).
Acquitted “because the fact does not exist”, although with the formula of doubt for insufficient or contradictory evidence, the other two Pakistanis, Sulman Muhammad, 24, and Naeem Muhammad, 37, to whom the prosecutor Letizia Puppa had asked to be inflicted 10 years and 8 months, as well as Jutt himself, for whom a sentence of 12 years was proposed.
Present in the courtroom, they both welcomed the verdict with relief and tightened in a hug the friend, who instead, with the lawyer Sara Barbesi, arrived from Verona to replace the colleague Emanuele Luppi, will now wait for the filing of the motivation, to present an appeal .
The hearing had opened with the vibrant speeches of the defenders. The lowest common denominator is the non-credibility of the offended party, due to the “many, different and irreconcilable” versions of the facts given to the police. A story, that of the girl, marked by the consumption of drugs and by family, social and psychological problems – observed the lawyer Barbesi – which also culminated in acts of self-harm. It is a complaint, his, without medical confirmation.
“Disarming”, according to the lawyer Elisa Guerra, from Udine, the words that her client, Naeem, had used to defend himself: “It was simply” it was not me “”, he pronounced in the courtroom, suggesting to consider the episode in July in which the minor had decided to involve him rather the “result of a hallucination or a false memory”, as often happens “when drugs and drugs are taken in large quantities”.
If this is the portrait of the complainant, the lawyer Esmeralda Di Risio, from Pordenone, did not hesitate to request a hearing and a psychiatric report, recalling how the same witnesses of the prosecution had “disavowed” her words, and accusing the investigators of not having carried out all the investigations that such an accusation would have required and therefore not having collected sufficient elements to prove the guilt of the accused. All findings, those raised by the defensive panel, which the court partially acknowledged. –