Perugia, the trial of the former guard of Amanda Knox accused of sexual violence collects the third postponement
Raffaele Argirò, deputy commander of the Capanne prison, was sent to trial in 2013 for alleged rape against a police officer: no witness was heard in three years
The trial of Raffaele Argirò, former deputy commander of the prison police of the Capanne prison accused of aggravated sexual violence against an ex-Milanese guardian, has not yet begun. Yesterday, the first college of the penal court of Perugia, chaired by Gaetano Mautone, even though the investigation had not started, the hearing was postponed tout court until 23 May 2017. In the two previous - October 2014 and March 2015 - it was limited to the lists of witnesses and very little else. It is learned in the court corridors that the Tuesday hearing was postponed because one of the constituents of the college was transferred to the European Court of Justice for several months. Up to now none of the 40 or so witnesses have been heard but the closed-door hearing before the college, composed for the third time in a different way, has received another postponement.
Three years ago the indictment of the trial of the gup Lidia Brutti is dated November 29, 2013. The disputed facts date back to December 2006-January 2007, but the complaint was formalized to the late police - in October 2011 - and the Massimo Massimo Casucci has closed the investigation an exact year later. Putting the statements of the injured person safe in the probationary incident during which the woman spoke of a "slave-slave relationship" characterized by "a dozen sexual relations".
The disappointment of the civil party Tuona the civil lawyer Mario Tedesco: "Following a circular of the CSM the president of the college has cataloged this process as one of those not to be treated with priority. Yet the disputed facts are very serious. We are disappointed and bitter, we have already taken into account that everything will be prescribed - continues German - and if next May the judge Pazzaglia will not be returned will be postponed even the next hearing.
The defendant: I am innocent The limitation periods for a crime such as sexual violence are quite long but Argirò, 61 years old from Stignano (Reggio Calabria) seems willing to demonstrate his innocence in the court, eager for the trial to be celebrated within a reasonable time. "The wait makes him suffering - explain his lawyers Daniela Paccoi and Silvia Egidi -. He was waiting for a different answer from Justice but, it is evident, it is not so ».
The scandal and retirement A few weeks after the scandal of the "guard of Amanda Knox" Raffaele Argirò has accelerated the time of retirement. In his diaries the American had described the policeman as a man "fixed with sex". As reported by the English tabloid The Sun, the young Seattle woman, detained four years in Capanne and then definitively acquitted by the murder of Meredith Kercher, wrote in a memorial: "At night he summoned me to the third floor in an empty office for a chat. When I repeated to him that I knew nothing about Meredith's murder, he tried to talk to me about her or take me to the topic of sex. " In the book Waiting to be heard he added: "The warder asked me how many boys I had sex, as I liked to do, if I wanted to do it with him." These harassments are not included in the indictment because no complaint has ever been filed by Amanda, threatened only in words by the penitentiary agent of a lawsuit for defamation never advanced in the Prosecutor's Office. On the other hand, the accused responded to the accusations of the vigilant: "I have never even touched it with a finger, a man agent is not allowed to enter the female arm if not accompanied by a woman
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