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10 September 2019New requests for precautionary measures for five suspects in the "Angels and Demons" investigation, the scandal on the alleged illicit minors' revolution which erupted last June in the d'Enza valley, in the province of Reggio Emilia. As anticipated by the Gazzetta di Reggio, the deputy prosecutor Valentina Salvi, owner of the file, has appealed against the rejection of the judge to apply house arrest on the specific case of the tasks of defending minors in custody of the social services of the Union of Municipalities in question.

Recipients of the requests put forward by the Public Prosecutor are Marco Scarpati, a lawyer from Reggio, the social services manager considered by investigators to be a key figure of the Federica Anghinolfi inquiry, the mayor (suspended from the prefecture and autosospesosi by the PD) of the Municipality of Bibbiano, Andrea Carletti, the head of social services Nadia Campani and the administrative director of social services Barbara Canei.

For all of these - accused of abuse of office in competition on the merits of this precise question - the prosecutor had already asked for the measures in June, but the investigating judge Luca Ramponi had said no to the request. However, challenged by the magistrate who is now awaiting the decision of the Bologna Review scheduled for the next few days. A key decision for Carletti (on which always the Review on September 16 will have to rule on the appeal presented by the defense lawyer Giovanni Tarquini who asks for the revocation of the measure) and Anghinolfi who are currently under house arrest: if the Review should in fact accept the appeal of the pm, the prosecution would come out stronger, while on the contrary different scenarios could open up. As for the lawyer Scarpati who is under investigation on the loose.

At the center of this specific story is the excerpt that sees accused ad personam up until 2015 ("in contrast to the occasional nature of the same" as stated in the indictment), for just under 15 thousand euros. "Simulating - it is disputed by the prosecutor's office - carrying out a formal procedure with public evidence for the assignment of the task of legal consultant in favor of the social service, procedure, in reality, imbued with macroscopic and very serious irregularities aimed at favoring Scarpati" .

But in the viewfinder in this context there is also Anghinolfi, because she is the signatory of the determinations relating to the legal appointments of trustees, as well as Canei (for having prepared the cost determinations) and on Carletti and Campani because both "in constant connection with Anghinolfi and fully aware of the total unlawfulness of the system, they provided for the systematic attribution of all legal matters relating to minors entrusted to the social service to a single subject ".

The same review court, a month ago, had also upheld the petition for the revocation of the domiciliary by the defense of Claudio Foti, the psychotherapist arrested for abuse of office in the 'Angels and Demons' affair, involved with other professionals from Hansel & Gretel , the Turin non-profit organization that founded and was responsible for taking care of abused children in the Enza Valley. Initially, there were 27 people registered in the register of suspects - who had recently risen to 30 - and six people arrested in the blitz at the end of June after the order issued by the Reggio Emilia judge.