The Acid Couple: Lawyer Paolo Tosoni in the Spotify podcast produced by Corriere della Sera

"Between November and December 2014, in Milan, a mysterious hooded figure threw acid at three young people who did not know each other, within a few weeks of each other: two of them suffered very serious burns, one miraculously survived, the culprit always managed to escape and not be recognized. Only the last attack led to the arrest of two people: Martina Levato, a university student, and Alexander Boettcher, her boyfriend.

It will take weeks for the investigators to discover, also thanks to the confessions of an accomplice, that they are the two responsible for those serial attacks, the result of a delirium of violence that actually began many months earlier. The case of the "acid couple", who are expecting a child in prison and want to raise it together, catalyzes the attention of the press. Why did they attack those kids? What did they want to prove? And who brainwashed whom, in that spiral toward the abyss?

A perverse story of psychological manipulation and lucid madness, which traumatized a city and turned the lives of several innocent young people upside down, told by the journalists of the Corriere della Sera with the voices of the protagonists."

This is the incipit of the beautiful podcast series produced by Corriere della Sera, in which you can also listen to the testimony of the lawyer Paolo Tosoni who defended the civil party in the so-called “La coppia dell'acido” trial.