A university student who was
almost blinded when acid was thrown in his face last November
told a trial court Friday he didn't see whether his attacker was
a man or a woman.
"It was someone shorter than me, but I can't say if it was
a man and a woman," he said in testimony at the trial of Martina
Levato, a former student at Milan's private Bocconi University,
and her boyfriend Alexander Boettcher, a 30-year-old real estate
broker, both of whom are already serving 14-year sentences for a
December 28 acid attack on Pietro Barbini, who was left
disfigured.
"I don't study any more because I can barely see," Savi
told the court.
"I'm blind in one eye and almost blind in the other. I've
had 12 skin grafts".
Andrea Magnani, an alleged accomplice of the couple, said
in court testimony earlier on Friday that he felt regret after
the attack on Barbini.
"He was a young man...who could have gotten a professorship
in Boston, and the same goes for Stefano Savi," Magnani said.
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