Milan prosecutors on Tuesday requested
that an investigation into alleged rape by Senate Speaker
Ignazio La Russa's son, Leonardo Apache La Russa, be dropped.
They said the rape case against a friend of La Russa's son, DJ
Tommaso Gilardoni, should be shelved too.
The investigation was triggered by a complaint by a 22-year-old
woman, who said she was convinced she had been sexually abused
after waking up in La Russa's home in May 2023 unable to
remember anything following a night out.
The young men said the sex was consensual.
The prosecutors did request, however, that La Russa junior and
Gilardoni be charged with the crime of 'revenge porn' for
allegedly sending a video of a sexual nature via whatsapp
without the young woman's consent.
"After a scrupulous and detailed examination of every aspect of
this affair, the investigating magistrates' decision to ask the
GIP (preliminary investigations judge) to dismiss the charge of
sexual violence comforts me in having said my son had nothing to
do with what he was accused of, something which caused a great
media uproar," said the Senate Speaker.
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