Cucchi: Pg Cassazione, 'confirm Cc convictions'

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 04 - The Pg of the Cassation, TomasoEpidendio, asked for confirmation of the sentences for the four carabinieri implicated in the death of Stefano Cucchi, the young Roman who died following the beatings received on the night between 15 and 16 October 2009 in the Casilina barracks after being arrested for drugs.

In particular, the Pg asked to confirm the convictions for presidential murder against Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro and the related 13-year sentence of imprisonment.

The 4-year sentence for false confrontations by Marshal Roberto Mandolini is also to be confirmed.

The responsibility for the same offense for Francesco Tedesco is also to be confirmed, but only for him the Pg asked for cancellation with deferral in relation to the sanctioning treatment.

A bis appeal could reduce the

    "It was a nocturnal via crucis that of Stefano Cucchi, taken from one station to another", underlined in the courtroom the Pg della Cassazione Tomaso Epidendio at the hearing for the beating suffered by the young surveyor by the carabinieri in the Casilina barracks, "and all the people who entered in contact with him after the beating they were impressed by the conditions of Cucchi: it is a large number of subjects including nurses, escort personnel, prisoners, guard officers.

   Can we really believe that this impressive number of subjects has conspired against the carabinieri? "" It is a moment of great tension - says the lawyer of the Cucchi family, Fabio Anselmo, to ANSA - which comes after 150 hearings and 14 degrees of judgment, 15 with today .

We hope that an end to a judicial truth that we all know by now and it is time for it to be definitively affirmed ". (ANSA).