Maria Dolores Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri, wife and daughter of former MEP Antonio Panzeri, are free again
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This was decided by the Brescia Court of Appeal by revoking the precautionary measures of the house arrest after the Belgian magistrates investigating Qatargate renounced the delivery of the two women.
The two criminal sections of the Brescia Court of Appeal, writes the President of the Court Claudio Castelli, "have taken note of the note from the Brussels Education Office received yesterday afternoon which renounces the surrender procedure and have revoked the precautionary measure of house arrest in the against Silvia Panzeri and Colleoni Maria Dolores".
For the rest, the note continues, "the proceedings are currently before the Court of Cassation, where the delivery orders had been contested, which will therefore be able to provide for the delivery".
In other words, the two appeals of the defense will no longer be discussed, because also in that session the waiver of the delivery will have to be acknowledged.
The Court of Brescia has in fact annulled, therefore,
the pronouncement with which in recent weeks he had given the go-ahead for the transfer of the two women, under house arrest since December, to a Belgian prison.
Judge Michel Claise's move to renounce delivery is the consequence of the agreement reached with Antonio Panzeri.
The former EU parliamentarian has given his willingness to collaborate, in exchange for a year in prison and the confiscation of one million euros, more or less the sum of the money found in his home in Brussels, in the family home in Calusco D 'Adda, in the Bergamo area, and on the current accounts held by him and his daughter.
A collaboration which, with regard to daughter and wife, has brought down the investigative needs even if, as explained by the defender Angelo De Riso who assists the suspects with his colleague Nicola Colli,
The decision on pre-trial detention for Fig-Talamanca and Giorgi is expected in the next few hours.
"We cannot make comments. The situation is complicated, there is still no decision", commented the lawyer of Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, Barbara Huylebroek
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at the end of the hearings for the review of the pre-trial detention of the head of the NGO No Peace Without Justice' and Francesco Giorgi, former MEP Antonio Panzeri's right-hand man, all in jail for Qatargate.
Pursued by journalists who asked him if he was optimistic, Giorgi's lawyer, Pierre Monville, limited himself to replying: "Always".
The hearings lasted 3 hours.
