Cerciello Rega murder, the carabiniere who blindfolded Hjorth in the barracks was acquitted –

The judges of the First Court of Appeal of Rome acquitted because “the fact does not constitute a crime” Fabio Manganaro, the carabiniere accused of a penalty measure not permitted by law for having blindfolded Gabriel Natale Hjorth in the barracks in via in Selci after the arrest of the two Americans for the murder of Carabinieri deputy brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, killed with eleven stab wounds on the night between 25 and 26 July 2019 in the center of the capital. With the sentence pronounced in the afternoon, the appeal judges accepted the prosecutor’s request for acquittal. On 24 February last year, the single judge in first instance had instead sentenced him to two months, with a suspended sentence.

«This sentence must be read and when the reasons are there it will have to be explored in depth by the former prime minister Giuseppe Conte and the former general commander Giovanni Nistri who were the first to condemn, without even examining and waiting for the trial results, the actions of a soldier who has honored the Army in 25 years of service”, the reaction of the lawyer Roberto De Vita, defender of the Carabiniere Manganaro. “This sentence re-establishes that trust in justice which had been lost with the conclusions of the prosecutor in the first instance and with the sentence of the single judge”, concluded the criminal lawyer, recalling the two-month sentence in the first instance.

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