The GUP of Naples Rosamaria De Lellis has sentenced Salvatore Allard, accused in the trial with the abbreviated procedure for the aggravated voluntary homicide of the policeman Domenico Attianese, killed over 30 years ago while trying to foil a robbery at the Romanelli jewelry store in the neighborhood, to 37 years in prison Pianura in Naples.
The requests of the PM Maurizio De Marco were accepted, who at the end of his closing speech asked for a thirty-year prison sentence. The sentence was accepted amid tears from the daughter Carla and the victim's wife.
Due to his serious health conditions, which did not allow him to be transferred to the courtroom and participate in the trial, the position of the second defendant, Giovanni Rendina (defended by the lawyer Marco Esposito of the Naples bar), was already separated in the previous hearing.
Today, therefore, only the abbreviated procedure of Salvatore Allard has been defined. The one concerning Giovanni Rendina, instead, has been postponed to next September 16, pending the improvement of his health conditions. Rendina, in fact, has been hospitalized for almost two months due to pneumonia contracted in the penal institution where he was detained.
A few days ago he left the intensive care unit of San Giovanni Bosco and is now waiting to recover through a rehabilitation program.
“The problem of prison overcrowding,” says lawyer Marco Esposito, president of the Forensic Institute for the Defense of Human Rights, “is a plague that afflicts most Italian penitentiaries and favors the proliferation of types of resistant bacteria, which are also common in hospital settings.
As regards the ongoing proceedings,” adds the professional, “we condemn the statements that appeared in the press in which it was categorically stated that Superintendent Attianese had been killed 'by shots fired by Rendina and Allard'.
This statement is not actually supported by the evidence. The superintendent was hit by a single 9mm bullet, presumably fired from his service pistol. It is therefore important to promote respect for the prisoners' right to health on the one hand, and sacrosanct respect for the presumption of innocence on the other.”
Article published on 23 July 2024 - 14:44
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