"The state certainly has the right to take a prisoner, but not to ignore it. This is the completely neglected terrain, in which a story, from a banal judicial point of view (an arrest on the subject of drugs), turns in a few days into tragedy".
This is what the judges of the Rome Court of Appeal write in the grounds for the sentence with which on November 14, 2019 they ordered an acquittal and recognized four prescriptions for five doctors of the Sandro Pertini hospital involved in the Stefano Cucchi affair.
They were all accused of manslaughter.
"Cucchi - the judges write in the 69-page document - undoubtedly represented a patient with a difficult approach, probably scarcely available to interlocution, perhaps with antisocial veins, certainly oppositional and anchored to a stubborn and infantile position of refusal of treatments".
For the magistrates, however, "it is too hasty and too simple to state at this point that the patient refused care and treatments and therefore nothing can be contested to the doctors".
For judges, on the other hand, we are in the presence of "a festival of ignorance that must have produced a reaction, let's call it childishly indignant, on the part of a subject who is probably already the bearer of his own fragility. Hence the step is short: letting go, opting for much worse, all the better to give rise to a sense of guilt in people who consider themselves intimately responsible for his state. "
"Cucchi was certainly urged to eat and drink liquid beverages, but probably never received adequate, detailed and complete information from anyone about his clinical conditions, the treatment needs they entailed and the risks he faced. with his attitude ".
This is what the judges of the Rome Court of Appeal write in the grounds for the sentence with which on November 14, 2019 they ordered an acquittal and recognized four prescriptions for five doctors of the Sandro Pertini hospital involved in the Stefano Cucchi affair.