The Florence court of appeal, overturning the first degree, acquitted "because the fact does not exist" Alessandro Albertoni and Luca Vanneschi, accused of attempted group sexual violence in the trial for the death of Martina Rossi, the 23-year-old student who died on 3 August 2011 falling from a balcony where he was on vacation in Palma de Mallorca. According to the accusation, the girl was escaping an attempted rape. On December 14, 2018, the Arezzo court sentenced the two defendants to 6 years. According to what was reported in the ruling, Albertoni and Vanneschi were acquitted because the fact does not exist from the charge of attempted group sexual violence and also from that of death as a consequence of another crime, an accusation declared already prescribed during the first hearing of the process. For the defendants, the general prosecutor had asked for a 3-year sentence, the maximum edict for the disputed accusation.
"There is nothing, Martina is no longer there, and even justice is no longer there." Thus Bruno Rossi, Martina's father, commented in the courtroom on the absolution of Alessandro Albertoni and Lucca Vanneschi in the appeal process for the death of his daughter Martina. Martina's parents watched the device read by holding hands. After reading the mother, Franca, left the classroom. "Italian justice has stopped on the work previously done," said Bruno Rossi. "What will I do tomorrow?", He added answering journalists' questions, "I will keep my wife close". "I am angry, the acquittal because the fact does not exist - he said again - It means to muddy Martina's honor, it means to say that she flew down alone".