Stefano Cucchi, judge abstains in the screening process: "I am a former policeman". Ministry of Justice is a civil party

It was immediately postponed the alleged trial false leads that would follow the death of Stefano Cucchi, arrested on 15 October 2009 for drugs and died seven days later at the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome. At the opening of the hearing the judge, Federico Bonagalvagno, abstained from the trial, which sees eight carabinieri defendants. Bonagalvagno justified his abstention by explaining that he was a former carabiniere currently on leave.

The decision of Bonagalvagno is linked to the initiative of the lawyers of the relatives of Stefano Cucchi who had asked the single judge to abstain after having learned from open sources that Bonagalvagno had organized conferences in which they had participated high officers of the weapon. The new appointed monocratic judge is Giulia Cavallone. The Ministry of Justice has filed for the establishment of civil party. Among the civil parties already established, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Weapon.

The 8 defendants they are all carabinieri, including senior officers, accused in various capacities and depending on the positions of forgery, aiding, omitting a complaint and calumny. This is the general Alessandro Casarsa, at the time of the facts commander of the Rome Group, and seven other carabinieri, including Lorenzo Sabatino, then commander of the operational department of the carabinieri of Rome, Francesco Cavallo, at the time of the facts lieutenant colonel and head of the Rome Group command; Luciano Soligo, at the material time, Major of the Weapon and commander of the Rome Montesacro company; Massimiliano Colombo Labriola, at the time of the facts commander of the Tor Sapienza station; Francesco Di Sano, at the time in service at the Tor Sapienza station; Tiziano Testarmata, commander of the fourth section of the investigative unit of the Carabinieri and the carabiniere Luca De Cianni, accused of forgery and slander.

They were not present at the trial Ilaria Cucchi and the lawyer Fabio Anselmo. In these hours the last hearing is taking place in the trial concerning the death of the boy, who sees five carabinieri, including three for unintentional murder, whose sentence is scheduled for Thursday November 14th.

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