Local police official Sofia Stefani
and her boss, Anzola police chief Giampiero Gualandi, who is on
trial in Bologna for allegedly killing her in 2024, had signed a
"sexual submission contract" on May 18 2023, prosecutor Lucia
Russo and attorney Andrea Speranzoni, who represents the
victim's family, said at a hearing on Monday.
In the contract, Gualandi described himself as Stefani's "owner"
who "could do everything to his slave", according to the State
attorney.
"I, lord and owner, commit to dominating the soul of my
property", the contract said, according to the prosecutor.
The defence attorney representing Speranzoni said "the
submission contract comes from the book 'Fifty shades of grey',
a best seller in 2011 and can be found in Chapter 11.
"There are BDSM sites from which these types of contracts can be
downloaded.
"It was a game, it has no validity, no juridical effect, no
possibility of influencing someone's behaviour.
"Adults can do what they want in their sexual lives", said the
lawyer Claudio Benenati, who is part of the legal team
representing Gualandi, the former local police chief of Anzola
charged with murdering the 33-year-old Stefani with whom he was
having an extra-marital affair.
The contract was signed approximately a year before the murder.
Gualandi's other defence attorney, Lorenzo Valgimigli, also
warned the Court of Assizes examining the case "against moral
prejudices".
Speranzoni, who represents the victim's parents, responded at
the hearing noring that "the protagonists of that contract are a
chief and an officer, everything was part of Sofia Stefani's
work environment".
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