Murder Ciatti, Bissoultanov’s lawyer: “I don’t know where he is, now trial stop in Spain”

“Bissoultanov? I haven’t heard from him for a month, I don’t know where he is, I sent him a message last Friday to coincide with the hearing of his trial in Rome but he never replied “. Thus the lawyer Francesco Gianzi, defender in the trial in Italy of Rassoul Bissoultanov, the 29-year-old Chechen sentenced in Spain to 15 years in prison for the death of Niccolò Ciatti. The 22-year-old from Scandicci (Florence) was beaten for no reason on the night between 11 and 12 August 2017 in a nightclub in Lloret de Mar, a well-known town on the Costa Brava, where he was on vacation with some friends. The Chechen, convicted of voluntary homicide, did not appear this morning before the Spanish court of Girona where the hearing for his imprisonment was scheduled. For the trial underway in Rome, which will resume in September and where prosecutor Erminio Amelio represents the accusation, different possible scenarios open up. “In Spain it is not possible to process a fugitive or in absentia, so now the appeal process is blocked and it is possible at this point that ours in Italy becomes definitive first” explains the lawyer in reference to the order of the judges of the Third Court of Assizes of Rome with which it was decided to continue the trial in Italy, parallel to the Spanish one, waiting to see which of the two countries reaches a final sentence first.