Overview
- A Rome pretrial judge ordered the preventive seizure of an audio file, and Carabinieri removed it from Maria Rosaria Boccia’s social profiles and a Campanian online outlet.
- The seized recording captured a private conversation between former culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and his wife.
- The action is part of a new investigation opened after Sangiuliano filed a complaint over events that occurred in August.
- The case is coordinated by deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini and prosecutors Giulia Guccione and Barbara Trotta, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for February 9 on broader charges including aggravated stalking, bodily harm, defamation and alleged false statements.
- Boccia denies wrongdoing, asserting Sangiuliano authorized the messages and recordings and that they support her defense, and investigators had seized her electronic devices about a year earlier.