The Padua Court has released the 36-year-old citizen from Kosovo who was arrested on Tuesday on charges of raping an Albanian woman immediately after being released from prison.
The woman said she was kidnapped, threatened with a gun, and then abused in an apartment. According to the version the man gave the judge, the relationship with her was consensual.
During the hearing, according to what was stated, the man told his version of events, according to which the relationship had occurred with the consent of the woman, whom he had met on the street, and had subsequently become friends with.
The two, according to the man's account, exchanged phone numbers and promised to meet at his former home.
A meeting that, as he told the judge, was interrupted after the woman became agitated and threatened to report him. At the end of the hearing, the judge decided to release the man, after assessing the reduced dangerousness of the subject and ordered him not to approach the woman.