The controversial motivation for the sentence was published on Tuesday.
It said, “the defendant did not carry out any form of violence” that put the alleged victim in a “situation where it was absolutely impossible to avoid the conduct”.
It added that she had a window of “20-30 seconds” that would have “enabled her to escape”.
The alleged victim, an air hostess, had contacted the unionist at Milan’s Malpensa airport in 2018 over a trade-union dispute.
In June, the Milan appeals court cleared the former trade unionist of sexual assault, upholding a first-instance verdict, stating that the hostess took too long to react to his alleged assault.
The man was first cleared of the alleged assault in 2020.
A women’s group assisting the alleged victim called the sentence a “disgrace that takes us back 30 years” and said they would appeal to the supreme Court of Cassation.
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