Stefano Cucchi, for the pm it was manslaughter – The Republic

ROME - Stefano Cucchi died from the fatal consequences of the beating suffered on the night of his arrest. Is not dead of hunger and thirst”, is not ” dead “for reasons unknown to medical science”, nor epilepsy. It was a murder. Preterintenzionale. Where decisive was the hand and the responsibility of those who had him in custody, the police then on duty in the station, the Appia. The same that to cover the truth would be accused of the death of the innocent, which they knew such.

Eight years after his death in a bed in the department of medicine protected by the hospital Pertini, Rome (22 October 2009), the chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and the pm Giovanni Musarò close the so-called inquiry bis (opened in November 2014) on those responsible for his beating and the act of conclusion surveys complains that three of the police officers who arrested him in the park of the aqueducts of Rome – Alessio Di Bernardo, Raffaele D ‘ Alessandro and Francis German – the crime of manslaughter.

With them, accused of slander, the marshal Roberto Mandolini, then-commander of the police station Appia (which, in the night between the 15th and 16th of October 2009 had proceeded to the arrest) and the police Vincenzo Nicolardi and Francis German. For Mandolins, and German, finally, also the crime of forgery of the minutes of the shutdown.

With a change of allocation (the police which is now objected to the murder had long been suspected of personal injury, aggravated, as well as Mandolins and Nicolardi, a false witness that now becomes, in fact, slander) that worsens the position of the accused and, above all, escape the imminent risk of the limitation period, thus begins a new story. “He was hit by the three carabinieri who had stopped with the slaps, punches and kicks,” the authors wrote Pignatone and Musarò. And the barrel is caused “a precipitous drop with impact on the ground in the sacral region” that “together with the omissive conduct of health care workers, who had been in care Cucchi at the protected structure of the Sandro Pertini hospital, it led to the death.”

A death until today without managers – three judgments, a first-degree and two appeals, in addition to a judgment of the Supreme court, have only lead to absolution (the final ones of the agents to the prison service in the security cells of the Court of Rome, confirmed in the two appeals, those of the health of the Pertini) – located in the solid acquisitions of this second inquiry of the Prosecutor’s office of Rome the conditions for the celebration of a new process, and to rewrite again the story of the beating and death of Stephen.

starting from what happened on the night of October 15, 2009 – Stephen was pounded in the barracks Casilina, where he had been brought up to be fotosegnalato – to continue with the key joint of the affair in legal terms. The existence that is, of a nexus of cause and effect between the violence after the arrest (the lesion of two vertebrae) and the death, six days later, in the Hospital Pertini.

the Decisive, in this sense, the confusing and contradictory the last expertise of the office (the one conducted by the director of the Institute of legal Medicine of Bari, Francesco Introna), filed at the beginning of October last year, which had in fact had to recognize for the first time in eight years, as well in a contortion of logic and argumentation, “the fractures traumatic vertebrae,” Stephen “well can you determine a condition of the bladder neurological” to the point that “nerve stimulation vagal connected to it may have contributed to the bradycardia of Cucchi until the final outcome”.

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manslaughter

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Starring:

stefano cucchi

Alessio Di Bernardo

Francis German

Raffaele D’alessandro

Roberto Mandolini

Vincenzo Nicolardi