“They raped me. All … Roberta … All“This would have been the answer of Silvia to her friend Roberta who, stroking her hair, asked her: “Silvia, why are you crying?“. At 14.45 on Wednesday 17 July 2019, Roberta wakes up, still dazed in the living room of the villa in Cala di Volpe. She immediately gets up and starts looking for Silvia, who was then found in a small room without a door in front of the bathroom It takes a few hours to remember the details and reconstruct what happened in the company of Ciro Grillo and his three companions. The question that arises is still the same: was it a real rape or that relationship was consenting, as shouted by Beppe Grillo on Facebook? At the moment, to understand what happened, one must rely on the investigation file, developed in a reconstruction after having heard dozens of witnesses and having intercepted cell phones. The messages were also recovered and the videos available to put together the fragments of that night were analyzed with great care.
The two young women meet the four (Francesco Corsiglia, Edoardo Capitta, Vittorio Lauria and Ciro Grillo) on the occasion of an evening at the Billionaire disco. Dancing, drinking and chatting: the evening slips by very quickly. At 5 am the party decides to leave and the girls are invited to the villa. It is 5.30 am and it starts to get cold: Corsiglia would have accompanied Silvia to get some blankets in the master bedroom and here, according to the accusation, he would have grabbed her “banging her on the bed, getting on top, kissing her on the mouth and trying a sexual approach“. For him it is a normal courtship dynamic. After 6 Roberta greets everyone present and goes to lie down on the sofa in the living room, falling asleep quickly. Silvia stays with the four boys and it is precisely at that moment that everything would degenerate.
“Forced to drink and thrown in the box”
Corsiglia would have accompanied Silvia to the single room, where she then lay down under the sheets. But the boy would not leave despite the constant requests from the young woman. Amid comments and background laughter from his friends, Corsiglia would approach for a full report. Silvia manages to free herself and go to the bathroom. But even here it would have been reached by Corsiglia who, as reported The print, he would have pushed her “from behind in the shower stall for another unwilling relationship“. Silvia can’t make it, she collapses and bursts into tears. She tries to wake Roberta, but in half-sleep she replies to leave her alone.
At 9 he continues to shed tears. “You know very well, Francesco hurt me and you didn’t intervene“, she replies to the boys who ask her why she was crying. The situation becomes incandescent:”Grillo, Lauria and Capitta would have forced her to drink some vodkaholding her by the hair“. The young woman claims to have her mind clouded, but remembers when Lauria would have invited her”to sleep in the master bedroom“. “The others join her, they go on her on the bed drunk, there rape in turn and together until he loses consciousness“. Around 2.45 pm Roberta wakes up and finds her friend paralyzed by fear. A surreal situation:”There was silence on the part of everyone“.
The sms in the chat
Silvia takes her clothes and covers herself. Two boys accompany the two young women to Arzachena where they will take a taxi at 15 to return to the bed&breakfast. The testimony of Daniele, the owner, is clear: “That afternoon the girls weren’t the same anymore. Then they stayed, I think one more week but they weren’t the same anymore. They were polite, pretty, one seemed a ‘God-fearing’ she was so reserved but from that afternoon they were detached, silent. Silvia asked us to borrow a bike to go to Palau“To go to the pharmacy to buy the morning-after pill.
A few hours later he goes to the scheduled lesson of kite surfing in Porto Pollo, but also the instructor reports that he found the girl closed, unfriendly, sensing that something bad had happened: “I remember she was very upset“. On Friday the parents arrive. Silvia is initially ashamed, but then she bursts into tears again and says:”Mom, they raped me“. The text messages exchanged in the meantime between the four friends end up in the investigation.”I’m afraid she denounced us“Capitta would write. And then one of them would send another message:”3 vs 1“. As if you were talking about a duel in a video game.