(ANSA) - PISA, 29 NOV - Three acquittals and two referrals were decided in a preliminary hearing in Pisa for the death of Emanuele Scieri, the parà della Folgore who died in circumstances not yet clarified at the Gamerra barracks in Pisa on 13 August 1999. In shortened procedure the gup Pietro Murano acquitted the Army under-officer Andrea Antico from the charge of aggravated voluntary murder 'for not having committed the fact', and the former officers of the Folgore accused of aiding and abetting, Enrico Celentano and Salvatore Romondia, 'because the fact does not exist'. Instead, the two excaporals Alessandro Panella and Luigi Zabara, both accused of voluntary murder in competition, have been sent to trial. The trial, with an ordinary procedure, will begin in April 2022 before the court of assis of Pisa.The prosecutor had asked for the indictment of Panella and Zabara and the sentences of the other defendants who had chosen the shortened procedure. "We are waiting to read with attention and interest - said the public prosecutor Alessandro Crini - the reasons for this sentence and in the end we will evaluate if and how to proceed with the appeal".
"We are disappointed with today's sentence, even if we will continue to struggle to write the truth about Emanuele's death", said Francesco Scieri, brother of Emanuele, after the sentence of the judge of Pisa. "The pronouncement of the GUP - he added - also seems to dismantle the conclusions of the parliamentary commission on the role of the alleged aiding and abetting of the two officers. But I am convinced that, in this affair, they had a role and, indeed, it is unimaginable that they did not have it. But what hurts the most is that the three accused for such a serious fact "as the killing of his brother" can get away with it. The sentence, commented Carlo Garozzo, president of the Giustizia per Lele association, founded by Scieri's friends, "leaves us thebitter in the mouth but we are accustomed to the slaps and our cheeks have been red for years from the blows ". But" today a court finally seals at least one incontrovertible fact: Emanuele was not a suicide but someone killed him ". (ANSA).
