Three weeks ago, the court had called both parties in the Danilo-case for a first hearing. Christine and I were not present there in person, but, Sabrina, our brilliant solicitor defended our interests. Not a lot was said, but according to Sabrina, the judge must have spotted immediately that the official documents, such as the building permit, seismic study etc. were backdated and issued long after Christine had already given Danilo the sack. He's now summoned both Christine and Danilo in person for further inquiry. Which Christine obviously looks forward to a lot. If the judge already has doubts now about the authenticity of all of these documents, the forged signatures will undoubtedly also come to light during the next session. Given that Italians generally tend to be very much concerned about their bad, "mafiosi" image abroad, it's very likely that the judge will not be mild on Danilo for having stained the image of Italy even more with ignorant foreigners. Counterfeit is a major crime and hopefully Danilo won't find any rock to crawl under anymore.
BTW, I should also mention here that nasty little Nezio has all of a sudden also agreed to an independent expert who'll come to take a look at the damages somewhere next week. Didn't he say earlier that he'd go to court right away or something?...
All of this is yet again a sign that things are looking up for Christine and I. You'll remember that last year Christine contacted two different solicitors, among whom a very famous one, in the hope that they would take our case seriously. Unfortunately, both of them suggested that we should pay the bastard and said that we didn't stand a chance in court. Now, we're no longer talking about paying Danilo. Oh no! Now we're talking about tens of thousands of Euros in damages that he should pay us! I won't be too optimistic here because if fate can turn so quickly to our advantage, it may well turn again in the opposite direction just as fast. But all things considered... I'd say we have both of them by the B... :-)
BTW, I should also mention here that nasty little Nezio has all of a sudden also agreed to an independent expert who'll come to take a look at the damages somewhere next week. Didn't he say earlier that he'd go to court right away or something?...
All of this is yet again a sign that things are looking up for Christine and I. You'll remember that last year Christine contacted two different solicitors, among whom a very famous one, in the hope that they would take our case seriously. Unfortunately, both of them suggested that we should pay the bastard and said that we didn't stand a chance in court. Now, we're no longer talking about paying Danilo. Oh no! Now we're talking about tens of thousands of Euros in damages that he should pay us! I won't be too optimistic here because if fate can turn so quickly to our advantage, it may well turn again in the opposite direction just as fast. But all things considered... I'd say we have both of them by the B... :-)
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