Overview
- Prosecutor Dario Bernardeschi asked the Biella preliminary judge to archive sexual violence, sexual molestation, and maltrattamenti counts against a 51-year-old department head at a Valdilana lanificio.
- The filing cites uncertainty over whether a reported touch was on the breast or immediately below and faults the woman’s accounts as not sufficiently precise, also labeling parts of the complaint tardy.
- On the maltrattamenti charge, the prosecutor argues the statute applies to family or para-familial settings and not to a workplace with roughly 40 employees.
- The long-serving employee, reported to have multiple sclerosis, alleged years of inappropriate jokes, sexual remarks, requests for sexual favors, touching of the buttocks, and an episode in which the supervisor lowered his trousers.
- Attorney Cristina Morrone formally opposed archiving, invoking trauma-related delays in reporting and citing a colleague’s testimony describing mobbing and forced standing work despite the woman’s disability; the judge will decide whether to dismiss or order further steps.