Brindisi – Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Paul Haggis has returned to freedom after sixteen days under house arrest on charges of sexual assault and aggravated lessons against a 28-year-old Englishwoman. The abuses – according to the accusation – would have taken place in a b & b in Ostuni from 12 to 15 June. The investigating judge of the Court of Brindisi, Vilma Gilli, accepted the petition for revocation of the arrest presented on 30 June last by the defender, the Bari criminal lawyer Michele Laforgia.
Haggis was under house arrest since June 19. On 29 June, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the alleged victim was heard in a long probative incident.and the long probative incident of last June 29, “Not only did it confirm the absence of constricting violent behavior on the part of the suspect in order to consume sexual acts, but revealed a complex story that blurs the original judgment expressed in the order” which had ordered house arrest for the director , namely Haggis’ inability to resist your sexual instincts “.
The investigating judge of Brindisi writes it Vilma Gilli in the revocation measure of the precautionary measure. The investigating judge explains that “the methods of meeting between the suspect and the offended person, the spontaneous stay” of the woman “at the suspect’s residence even after the abuse, the moments of conviviality between them during the days or the ordinary messaging of their commitments / displacements, the farewell procedures adopted by the injured person, are an expression of a complexity of interactions between the parties that, even where worthy of further study, the negative judgment of Haggis’ personality as a subject prone to exercise physical or mental violence to the detriment of third parties is currently weakening “.