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He allegedly forced five women to undergo sexual acts taking advantage of being alone with them in a doctor’s office Crema medical and health center. After more than an hour of indictment, prosecutor Chiara Treballi asked for a sentence of 5 years and eight monthsdiscounted for the abbreviated procedure, for a occupational doctor 63 year old Lebanese resident in Bergamo, registered with the Order of Genoa, accused of sexual violence. The sentence, given the long duration of the preliminary hearing, which saw the subsequent interventions of the civil parties and the defense, was postponed by the judge until October 31st.
Prosecutor Treballi
To accuse the accused, who is at house arrestare the five women (two live in the Milan area, two in the Cremona area, one in Cremona) who have joined the civil action through lawyers Simona Bracchi, Luisa Sangiovanni and Angela Ceriani. The doctor, however, is assisted by lawyers Emiliano Rossi and Sergio Stravino.
According to the accusation, “in violation of the duties inherent to the public service and with abuse of the powers underlying his professional role as a working doctor”, appointed to carry out periodic check-ups and suitability for work, with the excuse of measuring the pressure, he would have placed his private parts against the hands of the alleged victimsthen he would make them lie down and have them palpeggiate on your breasts, buttocks, or touch your back or groin. The women, who except two did not know each other, had been visited on January 22nd, while the others a week later. They were all employees of a cleaning company.
Last March, after the interrogation, the investigating judge had deemed the version of events presented by the five accusers to be “fully credible”, “in a coherent, detailed and free of contradictions way, describing in a homogeneous way the touching and groping that were repeated in almost identical way in all cases. Nor does it appear that the victims had prior knowledge of the doctor, so it is clear that there are no reasons that led them to report untrue things.”
Thesis is also supported today by the civil party lawyers: “our clients did not know each other”, said the lawyers Bracchi and Sangiovanni. “At this point we have to think of a conspiracy, as the defense claims. But it doesn’t make any sense…”. On the visits: “These women”, said the lawyer Bracchi, “do heavy work, so the heart and lungs, in the ten minutes of the visit, the doctor had to check them. Even if one had breast pain, it was not in the defendant’s duties.”
From left, lawyers Bracchi and Sangiovanni
On the defense side, “grotesque” the statements of the alleged victims were defined, which, according to the lawyers Rossi and Stravino, they would have influenced and influenced each other. A definition, that of “grotesque” which has greatly annoyed the civil parties, according to which “the The doctor’s modus operandi was always the same. “That of the defense”, for the workers’ lawyers, “is the usual, sad, attempt to blame the victims“.
One of the women, first made to sit on the bed and then lie face down, was allegedly groped on her breasts and buttocks, while another, after having made her lower her panties and exclaimed: “these women are always all overdressed”she was allegedly groped insistently for over six minutes. Same script for the others who underwent the examination.
“Due to the type of visits I carry out”, the doctor defended himself, “I don’t have to check the patients’ breasts”. The man, however, admitted having done it with one of the women, but only “to reassure the patient who reported having a problem”, a detail which the woman instead denied. The doctor explained that he had “palpated the lady laterally twice”, specifying that “the term palpation is a medical term”.
He had then denied touching any of the women on the buttocks, claiming to have “checked only the lumbar area with the fingertips, the intervertebral spaces and all the surrounding muscles to check for the presence of any contractures”.
In March the man denied having said the phrase about women going too dressed for visits, while he later admitted having said it, but that it had no sexual background. On the patient whose underwear he allegedly made to lower, the 63-year-old explained that she had told him she had protrusions and therefore needed to evaluate her spine. “Sometimes I lower my underwear slightly to have my spine completely exposed, so I can check it.”
He then admitted to having raised the leg of one of the patients, but to do “the Wasserman and Lasegue maneuveras expected in the specific case before me, based on the pain reported. I have to raise the lower limb, bend it. I then have to support the upper part of the buttock.” The doctor had specified that none of those women had had any reactions and none had complained.
Sarah Pizzorni
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