Ucpi on suicide Burzi: ” Being prisoners of an accusation for 10 years is barbarism ”

” The suicide of the Piedmontese regional councilor Angelo Burzi dramatically raises questions of elementary evidence. Being a prisoner of indictment and trial for ten years is barbaric, whatever the charge, whatever the responsibilities. To remain so after having been acquitted in the first instance ‘because the fact does not exist’ adds infamy to the barbarism, and it is not for everyone to be able to accept it. Angelo Burzi did not succeed. That’s all, tragically simple in its evidence. Yet we must read, in the usual gazette of handcuffs, that the wrong would lie in the words of those who are scandalized by this barbarism and express human compassion for those who have been victims of it. (Words, however, seasoned with the usual dose of technical misinformation: the annulment of the Supreme Court, with the exception of one item that became definitive, concerned not the simple redetermination of the sentence, as Labor states, but the existence of the subjective element of the conduct!) ” . The junta of the Union of Criminal Chambers underlines this in a note. ” No less serious – adds the UCPI – the words of the Attorney General of Turin, Saluzzo, appear to us, who felt he had to intervene (it is not clear in defense of who and what), ending up threatening even judicial reactions towards those who, expressing that dismay and those complaints, would stain themselves with contempt of the judiciary. Instead of maintaining a respectful silence of the tragic victim of that barbarism (an infinite trial despite a full acquittal in the first instance), or rather of opening a reflection on the compatibility between the appeal of the public prosecutor against acquittal sentences and the principle of condemnation ‘beyond every reasonable doubt ‘, Dr. Saluzzo, and it is not new for him, he leads the way, invoking the most hateful of crimes to silence legitimate criticisms”. Burzi, and all the proudest, immeasurable distance, cultural and ethical, from the positions expressed by Marco Travaglio and Francesco Saluzzo on the tragic epilogue of a judicial affair which is in itself incompatible with the constitutional principles of due process ”, concludes the Union of the Criminal Chambers.