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19 October 2017For the prosecution there are no doubts: Valentino Talluto, the Roman HIV-positive accused of having voluntarily infected no less than 30 women must be sentenced to life imprisonment. The request was made today by the prosecutor Elena Neri to the judges of the third assize court of the capital where, for the first time in Italy, a trial is held in which the widespread contagion of HIV is disputed. Arson and serious injuries the crimes attributed to Talluto who, during the trial, defended himself by denying "being a monster".

But for the prosecutor Blacks on the defendant "generic extenuating circumstances cannot be granted since they have never shown repentance". "I have been described as a monster but those who know me know perfectly well that I am not a bad person. What was written about me is not true," the defendant in the courtroom during spontaneous statements said on September 27th. "Talluto - the representative of the prosecution added during the indictment - has never cooperated, made false declarations, has always denied any responsibility even in the face of evidence: his was a way to sow death". The accused are contested 57 cases among direct infections (over 30), indirect (a child and three partners of women previously infected), and episodes of women who escaped the transmission of the virus.

In support of the accusatory claims, the prosecutor pointed out that "many of the people who were contacted during the investigation were reported to us by the Spallanzani hospital because they were infected by the virus subtype from which Talluto is infected". "We have contacted them one by one - the representative of the public prosecutor's office said - and punctually we discovered that they had had relations with Talluto after 2006. Spallanzani's laboratory helped us, given that Talluto did not help us and a puzzling panorama ".

Part of the victims spontaneously presented themselves to investigators and other infected people, thanks to telephone records. And during the indictment, the prosecutor wanted to underline how "this should not be a process for the girls who appear as victims. They represent a generation that does not know AIDS, who does not know the deaths of this disease, which binds it only to drug addiction and to homosexual relationships, and that he uses social networks to make relationships and make friends. Many of the girls - he added - who attended Talluto were on their first sexual relationship and many of them fell in love because they trusted their eyes appeared reassuring and full of attention, trying to present themselves at home as the classic good boy ".

The court presided by Evelina Canale will issue the sentence next October 25th. The process takes place with open doors, despite the delicacy of the topics dealt with by the choice of the judges themselves who consider the matter on which they will have to comment to be of great social interest. Among the civil parties also constituted the associations "Differenza donna onlus" and "Bon't worry we can non-profit association".