The Trento Court of Appeal will have to recognize the sentence issued in the United States against Chico Forti and then implement it.
This step will be necessary to complete the transfer to Italy of the Trentino surfer and television producer, sentenced in 2000 to life imprisonment by a Florida court for the premeditated murder of an Australian entrepreneur
"Chico Forti's return to Italy is an important and long-awaited goal achieved thanks to the authoritative personal commitment of President Giorgia Meloni. My offices will work to comply, in the shortest possible time, with all the necessary technical steps within the competence of the Ministry of Justice and which I had spoken about with the Attorney General, M. Garland, during his visit to the Department of Justice in Washington in November".
Justice Minister Nordio said in a note.
"We hope that all the other steps, which involve, among other things, the judicial authorities, can be completed in the shortest possible time to allow Forti to continue serving his sentence in his country, close to his loved ones. ", he concludes.
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"I'm happy for him, it seems like excellent news to me. An Italian solving his problem is positive news that gives us hope."
Thus Roberto Salis, father of Ilaria who has been detained for over a year in Budapest, commented to ANSA on the transfer of Chico Forti from the United States to an Italian prison to finish serving his sentence.
"I am of the opinion that the famous 2,500 cases of Italians detained abroad must all be addressed on a case-by-case basis - continues the 39-year-old's father - Therefore, focusing case by case on the most urgent and serious ones, paying the utmost attention, results can be obtained as happened in the case of Chico Forti."
"I believe that Italy has the history, the past and the name to be respected around the world, we can and must be a state that commands respect", he concluded.
Filippo Mosca's mother: 'The news opens my heart'
"When yesterday I learned the news of the resolution of Chico Forti's case, with his return to Italy, my heart opened and I felt a sense of happiness
. I believe that Italy, which is a great country, must also think of the many compatriots locked up in the prisons of other nations and detained in difficult and often inhumane conditions, as is happening to my son Filippo".
This is said by Ornella Matraxia, mother of Filippo Mosca, the young 29-year-old from Caltanissetta, imprisoned for about nine months in the Porta Alba prison, in Costanza, Romania,
after a first degree sentence of 8 years and 6 months for international drug trafficking narcotics, commenting with ANSA on the transfer of Chico Forti from the United States to an Italian prison to finish serving his sentence.
"Although the judicial cases are profoundly different - underlines Ornella - there is a whole load of feelings, emotions, objective difficulties and problems that inextricably unites those who face prison conditions and judicial cases abroad.
Empathy with Chico Forti, but also with Ilaria Salis and their families - continues the mother from Mosca - it has amplified and each of their successes, each small step forward fills me with joy and rekindles the hope that the Italian government will also take action for my son, so that our battles , the requests for help, the screams of pain do not go unheard
."
"I give a voice to my son who at the moment has no voice - underlines Ornella - I am desperate for his desperation and my battles are those that Filippo would fight for his innocence which he professed from the first moment of the arrest of he".
In recent weeks, Ornella Matraxia has denounced the treatment that her son has undergone in the Costanza prison.
"We were prevented from even giving him a blanket. For nine months we have been living in daily anguish - he adds - but we have faith in the Italian government and diplomacy, much less in Romanian justice which has proven superficial and approximate. Unfortunately, many Italians prisoners abroad are forgotten, we will continue to keep the spotlight on the case of my son accused of a crime he never committed".
In recent days, Romanian judges have rejected the request for house arrest.
The appeal process is scheduled to begin on March 7th and Filippo Mosca's mother and also a delegation from the 'Prisoners of Silence' association, led by Katia Anedda, will be present at the Costanza court.
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