“I dreamed of this second daily” –

“I dreamed of this second daily.” Chico Forti entrusted to Tg1 within the night the phrases that condense the which means of a day that noticed him return to Italy after 24 years in jail in Florida. It’s 11.34 within the morning when the airplane bringing Chico Forti again to his city lands in Pratica di Mare. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni can also be there to welcome him. Forti thanks you and the federal government, then will say that “returning to Italy is the explanation why I managed to carry on. For me the whole lot modifications right here. I haven’t got a quantity and I haven’t got handcuffs, it is a totally different environment”. Additionally to thank are “my uncle, my ‘lion coronary heart'”, and “Andrea, Veronica and Virginia Bocelli who had been unimaginable”. However her ideas go above all to her mom: “She is 96 years previous, if I’ve saved myself like this it’s due to her. I hope to have the ability to go to her quickly and provides her a giant hug”.

His human and judicial historical past, the one case of a lifer to whom the USA has allowed to serve his sentence in his nation of origin, is contained within the phrases of his uncle Gianni. “We gained what for all of us was a Punic struggle”, he says, assembly reporters, associates and supporters. In the meantime, Chico was notified of the supply with which the Court docket of Enchantment of Trento carried out the sentence issued in 2000 in the USA. “We’ll ask that Forti be capable to see his mom who’s 96 years previous and can’t go away Trento – specifies the lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova, Amanda Knox’s historic defender -. The humanitarian facet has additionally accelerated the process and has additionally been thought of by Court docket of Enchantment of Trento when the American ruling was carried out”.

Forti is then taken to the Roman jail of Rebibbia and, within the subsequent few days, he may very well be transferred to the jail of Verona after which to Trento. The entrepreneur, who started his profession as a businessman in the USA after successful a major sum on TeleMike by presenting himself on the historical past of windsurfing, left Trento in 1991, chasing the American dream which was abruptly interrupted by the homicide of Dale Pike, against the law for which Forti has at all times declared himself harmless, with whom he was in negotiations to purchase a resort in Ibiza the place Freddie Mercury had celebrated his forty first birthday. “Now Chico can get his life again – added his uncle Gianni -. In all these years we’ve got managed not to surrender an inch due to his resistance. An instance that has contaminated associates, bizarre folks from throughout Italy and illustrious folks on the planet of leisure who’ve at all times been near him like Andrea Bocelli”. A narrative with a contented ending.