Naples prosecutors have requested
an immediate trial for the the ex-boyfriend of Tiziana Cantone,
a 31-year-old who killed herself in September after a video of
her having sex went viral on the Internet, sources said Monday.
Sergio Di Palo is suspected of calumny in cahoots with
Cantone after they accused five people of being responsible for
the video being published.
He also faces charges over the alleged false reporting of the
loss of an iPhone.
The report was allegedly made to hide the fact that the video
was sent to a private chat from that phone, sources said.
Prosecutors said Cantone had not been "coerced" into making
the video, and similar ones.
They added that it had so far proved impossible to establish
who put the videos on a number of porn sites.
Last month Italy's privacy watchdog asked Google and Yahoo to
explain why links are still active to sex pictures and videos of
Cantone, from Mugnano di Napoli near Naples, who took her
own life on September 13.
The watchdog said it had opened a probe into the case.
The watchdog said it was acting after a complaint made on
December 16 by Teresa Giglio, Cantone's mother.
Watchdog chief Antonello Soro asked Microsoft Corporation
Inc., which owns Yahoo, and Google Inc. not only to look into
Giglio's requests but also to indicate what systems they have
used and intend to use in the future to remove links to pages
that illicitly publish images and videos of a sexual nature
featuring Tizana Cantone.
Giglio's lawyer Andrea Orefice said "our objective is to
obtain the elimination from the Web of all the obscene images
and all pornographic videos showing poor Tiziana".
He said "we know that this objective will be very difficult
to reach, also because the sites that still publish the videos
and images are often located in countries outside the European
Union, outside the competence of the privacy watchdog and in any
case in countries in which privacy norms do not assure
individuals the same guarantees as European ones."
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