The Court of Crotone he reserved himself decide within five days on the application to grant house arrest for Maysoon Majidithe twenty-eight year old Iranian Kurd, women’s rights activist, arrested on 31 December on charges of being a smuggler and sent to trial on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The request to grant house arrest, with an electronic bracelet, to the Kurdish activist in a facility managed by the «Sabir» association was made by her defender, for Maysoon Majidi it was reiterated by her defender, Giancarlo Liberati.
The public prosecutor, Maria Rosaria Multari, expressed an opinion against the granting of house arrest. The magistrate, among other things, exhibited some newspaper articles claiming that “in this trial, which has become media-focused, external conditioning and evidential pollution have occurred. It is no coincidence that there are two texts that cannot be found for the Italian judicial authorities, despite all the searches having been carried out, and then go to speak with the correspondents of the program “Le iene” and with their defenders. There are no conditions for granting house arrest to the accused because there is a danger of contamination of evidence and escape”. The lawyer Liberati also presented a request for the inadmissibility of the testimonies of the two migrants who accused Maysoon Majidi as “there was no unpredictability in their departure, so much so that the prosecutor himself states that they went all 77 left on January 2 following the expulsion decree. It was foreseeable that the migrants would move away.”