BOLOGNA – On the web she introduced herself as ‘Alessia’, saying she was a girl, and chatted (also on video) with girls between the ages of 9 and 14. But in reality there was a man behind the screen, and in his phone the specialized police found more than a thousand images and chats of child pornographic content. For this reason, the radio host of Rtl 102.5 Andrea Piscina was arrested in Milan yesterday , 25 years old: he is in prison. The news was reported by Corriere della Sera. The charges areproduction of child pornography and sexual assault. Piscina, as well as being the voice of the program ‘I nottambuli’, also works in the oratory in Milan, where among other things he trains children. In light of the results of the investigation, coordinated by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office and conducted by the Investigation and Prevention Unit of the Computer and Telematic Crime Unit of the Local Police of Milan, investigations will necessarily be carried out also in this environment and in the ‘real’ life of Piscina al off the web.
This is the note from the radio station for which Piscina worked: “Rtl 102.5 learned with disbelief and dismay the news of the arrest, which occurred yesterday, of Andrea Piscina, the 25-year-old radio speaker who must answer for the production of child pornography and sexual violence in an investigation by the Milan prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia”. And he continues: “The management of Rtl 102.5 was not aware of the investigation underway in Milan on the speaker. Rtl 102.5 has decided to suspend Andrea Piscina as a precaution from all activities linked to the pending broadcaster of the work of the judiciary, in which he has full confidence”.
The Corriere della Sera reports some chats identified by investigators which are the basis for the 25-year-old’s arrest. According to what emerged in the investigation, the man always approached the girls in the same way, with this sentence: “I’m going to the shower, I’m looking for someone to unlock the cam and show me naked, if you like top , otherwise I’ll look for someone else. Sorry if I go straight”.
The mother of one of the victims had filed a complaint last summer. A search has already been carried out on Piscina in recent weeks. The 25-year-old had ‘cleaned’ the chat and video call register, but the deleted material was still recovered by the police.