(ANSA) - TURIN, NOVEMBER 17 - The major 'Ndrangheta trials are at risk for the Covid emergency.
This is the sense of a report that the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, according to what is learned, wants to forward to the National Anti-Mafia Directorate and the Dap.
The crux of the matter is the impossibility - for what seems to be only an organizational problem - to set up videoconferencing connections for defendants held positive for Covid but asymptomatic.
This leads to long postponements of hearings and, in addition to lengthening the times of the proceedings, creates risks of expiry of the terms of precautionary custody.
The prosecutor took the initiative after what happened at the "Fenice-Carminius" maxi trial, celebrated by the Asti court.
At the Carminius-Fenice trial, where among others the former regional councilor Roberto Rosso is called into question with an accusation of exchange, one of the defendants, detained in Turin in the Vallette prison, tested positive for Covid.
However, despite being asymptomatic, he did not give up to participate 'daremoto' in the hearing: the consequence was that the court had to order a postponement (to December 16) because it was not possible to proceed with the video link.
It appears that no protocol has been established for prisons to resolve such situations.
The postponement involves suspension of the term of pre-trial detention for the defendant concerned, but not for all the others.
(HANDLE).