Ciro Di Maio, the TV presenter and actor arrested two days ago in Milan for having been sent a liter of Gbl, a liquid also known as ‘rape drug’, from Holland will go under house arrest. The judge for preliminary investigations, Sara Cipolla, validated the arrest in flagrante delicto and ordered the precautionary measure. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the 46-year-old had to remain in prison, while the lawyer Nadia Savoca had asked for a “less afflictive” measure, namely house arrest or the obligation to sign.
The conductor to the investigators had declared that he himself was a consumer of the substance, denying the purpose of drug dealing. Gbl (or gamma butyrolactone acid), known as “liquid ecstasy” and very similar to Ghb, is an endogenous substance, already present in our body. Often dissolved in drinks, those who take ‘liquid ecstasy’ develops greater compliance (hence ‘rape drug’), then a sense of dizziness and the effect fades remembers little or nothing of what happened.
During the interrogation under guarantee, the man, the leading face of the Marcopolo channel where he hosts the program “Travel Diary, said:” I am not a drug dealer, the substance was not intended for parties or anything else, it was only for me, I have been addicted for many years now and am looking to follow a therapeutic program which plans to ‘scale up’, gradually reducing consumption “.
The defense to prove this addiction filed “medical documentation”. The program, said the lawyer Nadia Savoca, “provides for the intake of 2 ml every 2 hours and in any case up to a maximum of 5 daily doses”. The conductor, however, “in this period he was taking more, because he does not always manage to follow the treatment“.
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