Neapolitans disappeared in Mexico: defendant flees during trial. Attorney Falletti, lawyer for the Russo and Cimmino families: “This whole story seems like a movie script.”
“What happened borders on the unbelievable, this whole story, from the beginning, seemed like it was taken from a movie script, but unfortunately it is reality,” comments the lawyer for the Russo and Cimmino families, Claudio Falleti.
The escape of the accused policewoman in Mexico for the disappearance of Antonio Russo and Vincenzo Cimmino, two of the three Italians who disappeared on January 31, 2018, in the Central American country, is incredible.
“These long and exhausting days of trial, continues Falleti, have borne fruit as much of the evidence admitted and formed is irrefutable, lastly the Hollywood-style escape of one of the defendants presumably decided as the sentencing approached which does not support the defense and does nothing but reinforce an involvement in the facts that all the defendants tried to deny until the end”.
At the trial, Francesco Russo, brother and cousin of Antonio and Vincenzo, and son of Raffaele Russo, also testified (the latter had disappeared several hours before the two young men and the trial indirectly concerns his disappearance). According to what we learn from the Mexican lawyer who is assisting Falleti in this judicial proceeding, in Mexico, among the experts, there is no other talk: "It is a historic trial - underlines the lawyer of the Russo and Cimmino families - for the first time the 'forced disappearance' of three Italian citizens sold by police officers to local drug dealers sees such a display of forces: four prosecutors from Fiscalia (the Mexican prosecutor's office), four defense lawyers, three lawyers for the indirect victims (the families of the disappeared) of what happened".
“Unfortunately – Claudio Falleti underlines – we are left alone in front of this ordeal that by a strange coincidence will end today, Good Friday”. During the whole trial the defendants were offered the possibility to give some information about the three Italians. If they knew, indicate the place where they should be.
"I hope - concludes Falleti - that these three years and two months of work, sacrifice and protests have not been in vain and that justice will truly take its course. The guilty must pay. As Francesco Russo said, during his deposition "we only want to know where Lello, Antonio and Vincenzo are".
Read about the three missing Neapolitans too here
Article published on 2 April 2021 - 10:11
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