Five former footballers at Serie C
club Virtus Verona have been found guilty of gang raping a
20-year-old female student in January 2020, local newspaper
L'Arena reported Tuesday.
They were sentenced to six years each in jail by preliminary
hearings judge (GUP) Paola Vacca.
The five former Virtus players are: Stefano Casarotto, 26, from
Venice; Gianni Manfrin, 29, from Padua; Edoardo Merci, 23, from
Verona; Argentine Santiago Visentin; and Romanian Daniel
Onescu.
They all paid damages to the student, who has not been named,
before the trial and she withdrew a civil plaintiff plea, but
the prosecution went ahead automatically.
The five were teammates at Virtus on the night of the rape, on
January 18-19.
The young woman said she was taken to a flat by one of the
players, a friend of hers, where he and the others got her drunk
and raped her.
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