(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, NOV 15 - The Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia renewed in her meeting today in Washington with the attorney general Merrick Garland "the request for the transfer of compatriot Chico Forti to Italy, so that he may continue to serve the sentence of life sentence he was convicted of murder and is being held in a Florida jail. " This was stated by the ministry in a note.
The Minister of Justice, explains the ministry, "provided the Attorney General, the authority responsible for the final decision on the case with the consent of Florida, with the clarifications requested on the Italian side's compliance with the 1983 Strasbourg Convention" on the transfer of sentenced persons.
The Trentino entrepreneur Forti has been detained for 20 years in Florida for a murder of which he has always protested innocent (ANSA).