Marò case, Rome prosecutor asks for archiving: “Insufficient evidence”

The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has asked for the investigation to be closed on the two marines Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre regarding the affair of two fishermen shot dead in February 2012 off the coast of Kerala, India. In piazzale Clodio an investigation file for voluntary murder had been open since 2012, entrusted to the prosecutor Erminio Amelio. The two riflemen had been questioned in the prosecutor’s office last July. Latorre and Girone were already listened to by the prosecutors of Rome on January 3, 2013 and in the same year the prosecutors from the Capitoline arranged an appraisal on the computer and on a camera that were on board the Enrica Lexie, the ship on which Latorre and Group. At the end of the investigations, the prosecutors of Rome, coordinated by the prosecutor Michele Prestipino, asked the investigating judge to dismiss the accusations as the framework of the evidence collected is insufficient to guarantee the establishment of a trial.