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“The power of love”, “A dangerous game”, “Bitter honey”. These were the ghost movies for which a 48-year-old organized castings to select aspiring actresses ready for the big screen. Too bad that once in his office, the girls became objects of his wishes. Real sexual abuse for which the man, an Italian citizen, was arrested after the complaint of one of the victims, just over 18 years old.
The State Police, coordinated by the Public Ministry of Milan, executed in prison the order of the precautionary measure issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Milan, Livio Cristofano, at the request of the Deputy Prosecutor of Milan Maria Letizia Mannella and the prosecutor joins Giovanni Tarzia against the 48-year-old. He is a character with numerous histories of fraud, embezzlement, false documents, and sexual assault, often using the same technique.
He abuses aspiring actresses during interviews.
The investigation began on July 11, 2020, after the girl presented herself at the premises of the General Prevention Office of the Milan Police Headquarters. According to her account, later verified by the police, she had been contacted by telephone to participate in the casting dedicated to the production of a film entitled “The power of love”, to which she had registered through a site that belonged to the agency. “Trend”. Communications. “Once she got to the interview, the man, who had introduced himself as the casting director, had sexually abused her.
The policemen of the Fourth Section of the Flying Squad have opened a close investigation that, in addition to allowing the identification of the man, led to the identification of at least three other victims of the same crime. These are girls between 23 and 29 years old. They all tell more or less the same story, like an always identical canvas. The man who abuses them and sexually harasses them under the pretext of a false casting for the production of the films “A Dangerous Game” and “Bitter Honey”.
Before Rome, sexual violence during the “cast”
It is not the first time that the handcuffs have reached the 48-year-old’s wrists. In August of this year, he was arrested in the framework of a process registered by the Public Ministry in the Rome Court for similar events, identified between September 2019 and July 2020. In summary, the man had never stopped casting whose sole purpose was to have sex with aspiring actresses.
On the occasion of the interviews with Roman, the flyer read the following: “Please register only and exclusively if you have the required characteristics, submitting an application that is not suitable for selection is useless as it will be thrown away.” A network in which some girls have fallen, attracted by the possibility of working. Then, after a more or less normal first interview, at the second meeting the 48-year-old took action, as he recounted at the time. RomeToday.
He would ask the girls to play the role with him and then he would take advantage of the situation to abuse. Not only that, on some occasions, it was learned, he had also locked the victim inside the apartment. In another episode he committed a complete sexual assault.
Violence during the coronavirus emergency
The abuses were also consummated in the midst of the covid 19 emergency, so much so that the suspect continued to have contact with the victims proposing them to participate in the casting of new films, which he resumed just after the confinement (the first), as demonstrated by the Milanese events .
Investigations by the police in Rome show that the director, in order to achieve his objective, led the young actresses to believe that performing the sexual acts requested by him constituted a demonstration of his artistic abilities and that the refusal would have been indicative of his inability to act. . An excuse that fortunately was not enough to fool some of the girls, such as the young woman who on July 11 showed up at the Milan police station to report him.
