Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi (photo below) did not arrive. They are represented by a lawyer from the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office at the preliminary hearing of the massacre known as the Fidene massacre. And before the judge, the lawyer for the two ministers asks for a “penalty of non-prosecution”: this means that the murderer – despite confessing – is to be ordered to prevent the ministers from being ordered to pay compensation to the families of the victims. He should not be tried for murdering four women and should be released from prison. The fact that the state lawyer spoke on behalf of Crosetto and Piantedosi is also confirmed by the procedural documents: “Ministry of Defense in the person of the interim minister”, “Ministry of Internal Affairs in the person of the interim minister”, it is written as follows: The name of their lawyer appears in the report next to Antonio Trimboli.
In fact, the ministries are accused of not controlling the custody and management of weapons at the Tor di Quinto shooting range in Rome (in the photo next to the title, entrance) as required by law. A defect that, according to the investigation of the prosecutor’s office, caused the deaths of four people, all women, a year ago on Sunday, December 11, 2022: Sabina Sperandio, 71 years old, Elisabetta Silenzi, 55, Fabiana De Angelis, 50. and accountant Nicoletta Golisano, the same age, of the Valleverde housing consortium accountant and friend of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. This is a condominium meeting called to approve the year-end budget under the gazebo of a bar on Via Monte Giberto in the Fidene district, on the northern outskirts of Rome. Twenty people are discussing calmly. Until a member of the consortium showed up: he went to the range, grabbed a .45-caliber Glock pistol, and remained armed without anyone stopping him. That man has not been the same since he lost his 14-year-old son in a snow accident in South Tyrol in 2012. Thus, more victims are added to femicide in Italy.
Therefore, the preliminary hearing must decide whether to arrest 57-year-old murderer Claudio Campiti, a member of the consortium, who shot and killed four women and injured three other witnesses at the Tor di Quinto shooting range. He was sent to court for the massacre. He has no chance of declaring himself innocent: Campiti was disarmed, arrested at the scene, and then confessed. So much so that the lawyers of the thirty-five intervening parties, the prosecutor Giovanni Musarò, and even the defense lawyer Giovanni Persichetti, demand that the judge issue a decree for the trial at which Campiti will risk his life. imprisonment.
Four women murdered by Claudio Campiti on the outskirts of Rome
The court had also subpoenaed the alleged civilian perpetrators: the Rome branch of the National Shooting Association in the person of extraordinary commissioner Orlando Parrella, the Italian Shooting Association represented by president Costantino Vespasiano, and indeed the Ministers of Defense and ‘Interior’. are the members responsible for control. These are all public institutions held responsible by the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged negligence that allowed Campiti to take the gun and leave unmolested. Defenders of the National Shooting Range and the Italian Shooting Association are asking to be removed from the hearing. According to the hearing report signed by Judge Roberto Saulino and authorized officer Eleonora Galli, “lawyer. Antonio Trimboli, on behalf of the civilian leaders of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, insists on the demand already formulated at the last hearing and requests a decision not to proceed”. It is written exactly like this: A formula equivalent to the acquittal of Claudio Campiti (photo below) and his release from prison.
The trial is almost over. It’s a few minutes until noon on Monday, November 27, 2023. An hour later, the judge leaves the room and reads the decree ordering the trial of Claudio Campiti and rejecting the requests of the Department of Defence, Internal Affairs and Rome. national shooting gallery. Only the Italian Shooting Association was excluded from the proceedings.
The defendant will therefore remain in prison and will not be acquitted. It looks like it ended this way. But the next day, November 28, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office came out to defend the Attorney General’s Office on a strange, absolutely unsolicited basis. “The state’s lawyer – claims the Prime Minister made a press statement – never requested at the preliminary hearing that the defendants not be tried”. In the minutes of the hearing, the institutional version was expressly rejected by the judge, his official and the twelve lawyers of the victims’ families present. And now there are those who confess their surprise at the surprising request of their colleagues representing the Ministers of Defense and Internal Affairs.
Giorgia Meloni’s office sparks protests from family members
Under the influence of Palazzo Chigi’s interesting statement, the twelve lawyers demand a copy of the minutes of the hearing, thus proving, in their opinion, a blatant lie: “From the document – explain the lawyers of the victims’ families in a letter – it is clear that the State lawyer requested a decision of non-prosecution on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense This is a truly unacceptable attitude by a state apparatus that is essentially asking the judge not to try Claudio Campiti and perhaps release him. […]. The families of the victims expect the State to provide justice and pay immediate compensation due to serious responsibilities” (in the photo below, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with accountant Nicoletta Golisano, one of the victims of the Fidene massacre).
Among the twelve people who signed the letter were lawyers Luca Cococcia, Francesco Innocenti, Luca Marconi and Massimiliano Gabrielli, who assisted the families of the four victims and the injured. “We felt abandoned,” lawyer Innocenti tells Today.it. But it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs that arrested Campiti. He handcuffed him with his right hand and asked him not to continue with his left hand.” We wrote a letter to Minister Crosetto and Piantedosi’s lawyer so that they could reply or explain what was reported in the hearing minutes. No response has been received so far.
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Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
