"Nobody denies that there was a beating, but it was not so violent. Stefano Cucchi was not killed by slaps or punches, nobody beat him to death. The people who let him die were the doctors through negligence and omissions, those who made a mistake paid criminally and civilly with compensation ".
This is what the lawyer Antonella De Benedictis, defender of the carabiniere Alessio Di Bernardo said, during the second degree trial that sees him accused of manslaughter for the beating of the Roman surveyor who died in 2009.
For Di Bernardo, the pg Roberto Cavallone asked for a sentence of 13 years in prison as well as for Raffaele D'Alessandro (in first instance sentenced to 12 years), and 4 years and 6 months for Marshal Roberto Mandolini (3 years and six at first instance) accused of forgery. Requested absolution, again for forgery, for Francesco Tedesco, the soldier who with his statements shed light on what happened in the Casilina barracks on the night of the arrest. "To say that Di Bernardo beat him to death is not right - added the defender -. There were slaps and perhaps a push that caused Cucchi to fall. Whoever did it was wrong and must pay, but it was not violent. beating. Di Bernardo is a good person, a father of a family, a highly decorated carabiniere: no one has beaten Cucchi to death ".
