“Raped in a disco in Genoa”, off to interrogations. The investigators listen to the 20-year-old and look for testimony
Genoa – The investigators of the flying squad will speak today with the twenty year old girl who, the other morning, was accompanied to the Galliera emergency room and told of having been raped inside a nightclub in the Ferry Terminal. After this interview, based on the findings obtained by the investigators, comparisons will start with the possible testimonies of that night and with the owners of the club. Looking for useful information that can lead to the identification of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack, if the reconstruction made by the young woman is definitively confirmed.
In the ward on Saturday, the girl explained to hospital staff and investigators about remember almost nothing of the previous night. And therefore not even if it was only one person or several individuals who abused her. An amnesia that has made the doctors doubt that some drug may have been administered to her. She capable of inhibiting her defenses but also of removing her memories. Thought went to the so-called rape drug, the use of which has already been the focus of other news cases.
What appears certain is that the young woman, in the night between last Friday and Saturday, made use of alcohol in large quantities. Whether it was she who personally drank it or someone, by force or deception, forced her to get drunk, the investigators are clarifying. The alarm went off on Saturday morning when the girl was found on board a bus in a state of shock, confused by alcohol. Whoever was on board alerted 112 and the rescuers accompanied the twenty-year-old to the emergency room. She there she explained that she had spent the evening in that disco. A meeting place that had already attracted the attention of the police forces in past years. And always in the club, the young woman would have been approached by at least one man, who would have forced sexual intercourse on her.
Today will be an important step in the investigation. Because the investigators, with tact and through precise questions, will be able to obtain more information from the girl. 48 hours after her first story. And find out, for example, who was with her that night, so as to obtain a list of possible testimonies. Who to talk to, but that’s just the next step. While searches for cameras that may have captured something relevant to the investigation have been underway for hours.
Let’s continue in the intimate too investigating another assault with a sexual background that always had a twenty-year-old as its victim.
A girl who lives in the west of the city and who on Tuesday morning was rescued by a coachbuilder who was opening his business in via della Marina, not far from the ancient port, under the Ligurian center. The young woman had been accompanied to the Galliera and she had told of having suffered a rape in the Baltimore gardens, close to the place where she had been found, shocked. Two foreign men would first approach her with unbearable words and then block her. The girl had explained to the police that she found herself there after getting lost, while looking for a bus home. She had spent the evening in a disco on Corso Italia and had lost her bearings, wandering around the Foce, Brignole and the centre.
Until you reach the park, for years the subject of recovery attempts, often shipwrecked. Often a land of conquest for pushers and drifters.