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Passing police officers saw her walking unsteadily in the void of an August night. At five thirty in the morning, the woman almost staggered on the sidewalk of Viale della Liberazione, the main street that overlooks the new financial center of Milan, enclosed between the skyscrapers of Porta Nuova and Piazza Gae Aulenti. She didn’t ask for help, she turned almost absently toward the police car. Then he said only a few confused words: “Maybe they raped me, I don’t remember anything.”
The victim of the violence is a 34-year-old Polish woman. He has lived and worked in Milan for some time. Everything happens at night between Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 August. But to reconstruct the girl’s story takes several days and delicate hearings with researchers and psychologists. And above all the recognitions of the doctors of the Help for Sexual Violence in the Mangiagalli clinic, the reference point of the Lombard capital for victims of violence. A story that recalls the nightmare lived on July 15 by a 45-year-old girl in the park of Monte Stella: taken from the back and raped by a 24-year-old Senegalese woman. The rapist was later caught by Mobile Squad police.
On the first visit, when the woman is transported by an ambulance 118 Called by agents, health workers notice bruises, bruises and trauma compatible with violence. The 34-year-old is in shock. He says he drank during the night he spent in the bars near Corso Como. But he doesn’t know anything else. Despite the caution of researchers and psychologists, he is blocked, struggles to speak: he decides to sign the discharge and leave the hospital. There is no complaint, there is no certainty that it was really violence. Researchers and doctors know, however, that it could be an emotional reaction. That victims often need hours, if not days, before they can remember what shock and memory have tried to erase.
Deputy Prosecutor Letizia Mannella is advised, the magistrate who coordinates the department of the Prosecutor’s Office that deals with weak issues. Investigators begin to piece together, even without the girl’s account, what may have happened that night. Witnesses are sought, an attempt is made to delimit the victim’s path and trace clues before time makes them disappear. Hours pass, then it is the 34-year-old herself who returns to Mangiagalli. Psychologists, along with mobile police officers dealing with sex crimes, help her find the strength to tell it. The memories remain a bit hazy, clouded by the alcohol and the fright of that night. She explains that she was attacked on the way home and walked in the heart of Piazza Gae Aulenti. A person would have surprised her from behind, grabbed her and dragged her down one of the stairs that surrounded the square. Here the rape would have taken place. Nobody saw, nobody raised the alarm.
Hours later the medical examinations certify the violence suffered. The results are transmitted to the prosecutor Michela Bordieri, the search for the rapist begins. In support of the investigations there would also be biological traces found by Scientific. The first results of the investigation confirmed the history of the woman. And, although in the greatest secrecy, they suggest that it may have been a foreigner. You dig between cameras and possible witnesses. A race against time to erase this new nightmare.
September 12, 2020 | 07:26
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