Cucchi case, today the Cassation decides on beating and death

Stefano Cucchi’s death, today the hearing of the trial in which 4 carabinieri are accused is scheduled in the Cassation. The supreme judges are called upon to decide whether or not to confirm the sentence of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome which on 7 May last year sentenced the two carabinieri Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D’Alessandro accused to 13 years for manslaughter. of the beating of Stefano Cucchi, arrested on 15 October 2009 and who died seven days later at the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome. In the second instance, Roberto Mandolini, at the time of the facts, commander of the Appia station, was sentenced for forgery to four years and Francesco Tedesco, the soldier who with his statements for the first time had spoken of the beating, and two and a half years for the same crime. occurred in the Casilina barracks on the night of the arrest. Read also “Today is a day that we have been waiting for a long time, now we expect a confirmation of the appeal sentence and that after 13 years we will be able to put an end to this matter”, said the lawyer Stefano Maccioni, lawyer for the parents of Stefano Cucchi, entering the Supreme Court. “This affair has restored hope and trust to many people, we hope that this trust will not be disappointed,” said Ilaria Cucchi, entering the Supreme Court with the lawyer Fabio Anselmo before the hearing began. ” After 15 degrees of judgment and more than 150 hearings it is a grueling story, we are exhausted but we have come this far and we have faith in the truth ”added the lawyer Anselmo.