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Marò, Girone listened to for over three hours in the Public Prosecutor's Office in Rome

2021-07-23T15:10:13.227Z


Almost ten years after the first investigation, the soldier has reconstructed the phases of the story by providing his version of the facts (ANSA)


Sunglasses, blue jacket, no uniforms.

Thus

Salvatore Girone

, the seafarer accused together with his colleague Massimiliano Latorre of voluntary murder for the death of two fishermen in India in 2012, crossed the entrance of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office to be questioned.

An investigation that came almost ten years after the first, always carried out in piazzale Clodio after the two Navy soldiers returned to Italy.

THE VIDEO - The Marò affair retraced by Ansa

Girone was heard for over three hours by the deputy prosecutor Erminio Amelio, owner of the proceedings. Before the magistrate, the soldier reconstructed the phases of the affair by providing his version of the facts. Leaving the judicial citadel of Rome, the military did not want to make statements, leaving his defenders to speak, who did not hide the satisfaction for the progress of the confrontation with the magistrate. "Girone has answered the questions of the prosecutor and we hope that the filing will arrive soon to close a story that has lasted many years", said lawyers Fabio Federico and Michele Cinquepalmi. The interrogation for the other soldier involved in the affair was set for July 27. The investigation of the ordinary prosecutor experienced aacceleration in July of last year after the International Court of The Hague decided the jurisdictional competence in favor of Italy. In recent months, the owner of the file has read and analyzed the dossier, over one hundred pages of documents, which came from Holland. In the file of the Roman procedure there are the minutes of the first interrogation carried out.

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We fired 7-8 shots into the sea to discourage the approach of a vessel other than the one shown by the Indian authorities '',

the two soldiers told at the time. A face to face that lasted about 5 hours and to which the two soldiers went to make spontaneous statements. Among the papers in the file also the hearing of the other four riflemen of the military protection unit, who said they were not direct witnesses of the incident. In practice, not having seen anything. Also in 2013, the report that the Public Prosecutor placed on the computer and on a camera that were on board the Enrica Lexie, the ship where the two soldiers were on duty. A work that aimed to clarify what happened in February of eight years when Valentine Jelastine and Ajeesh Pink, two fishermen boarded on an Indian fishing boat, off the coast of Kochi, were killed. Conversations between the commander of thecrew and the shipowner, as well as the communications made by the Italian bodies while the camera would have stored images of the alleged attack by pirates. The Military Prosecutor had also initiated proceedings on the two riflemen for the crimes of '' aggravated delivery violation '' and '' dispersion of military weapons '' and then undressed the case, leaving the entire investigation in the hands of the ordinary judiciary.dispersion of objects of military armament '' and then undressing the case, leaving the entire investigation in the hands of the ordinary judiciary.dispersion of objects of military armament '' and then undressing the case, leaving the entire investigation in the hands of the ordinary judiciary. 


Source: ansa

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