Murder Ciatti, father Niccolo ‘: “We are looking for true justice, serious investigations made in Italy”

“We are looking for justice, a true and serious justice. I think it is very important to speed up this procedure. The investigations carried out in Italy have been serious and could lead to a just sentence”. Thus at the end of the hearing before the Third Court of Assizes of Rome Luigi Ciatti, father of Niccolò, the 21-year-old from Scandicci beaten to death on the night between 11 and 12 August 2017 in a nightclub in Lloret de Mar, Spain , where he was on vacation with a group of friends. “That evening there were three Chechens and in Spain one of them was never identified. In Italy they found the evidence in Spain they didn’t even look for it. The verdict in Spain – said Niccolò’s father after the sentence of the Spanish trial that arrived last week which includes a sentence of between 15 and 25 years of imprisonment – it was favorable for a defendant and for Bissoultanov we are waiting to know the sentence. I cannot think that he will be released after 15 years “he added. “In Spain there is still no mechanism and the accused, even if convicted, can leave the country and remain unpunished pending the appeal” commented the lawyer Agnese Usai, lawyer of the civil party. ‘addressed to the Italian judges and awaits a swift response. This process must be done and even swiftly, with a sentence even before the summer. If Spain made the trial in four hearings, Italy can do this too: we have an explicit video. Italy too must give an answer to the Ciatti family. We have to show that our justice works quickly ”, Erminio Amelio, the Rome prosecutor, said today in the courtroom. The defense of the accused, the Chechen Rassoul Bissoultanov, at the opening of the hearing this morning before the judges of the III Court of Assizes of Rome, asked to close the trial in Italy, for bis in idem, in light of the sentence of first instance pronounced last week by the Spanish judges who condemned the Chechen for aggravated voluntary murder. The Spanish authorities do not intend to move back one millimeter. I ask you to speed up this process. The case happened in Spain but the consequences are borne by this family, who found themselves with a brutally killed son. As in the case of Regeni killed in Egypt, the consequences are suffered by the families in Italy. Our system allows us to move forward and we must be able to give an answer from the Italian state, from the Italian judges. Spain had Bissoultanov in custody for 4 years, who was then released, and decided to go to trial after five years ”. After hearing the parties, the judges of the Third Court of Assizes, chaired by Antonella Capri, reserved the right to decide on the question posed by the defense and the decision will arrive by the next hearing scheduled for June 22.