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16 July 2019The Gup ordered the postponement to trial for eight soldiers of the Army, including senior officers, charged in the investigation into alleged misleading concerning the causes of the death of Stefano Cucchi. A fourth trial opens which sees the police chain of command at the dock that - according to the accusations - would have produced fakes to divert the investigations. The first hearing is scheduled for 12 November.

The eight carabinieri are accused in various capacities and according to the positions of forgery, aiding, abusing a complaint and calumny.

"An extremely significant historical moment. It all started with Riccardo Casamassima". This is how Ilaria Cucchi comments on the decision of the GUP of Rome. Ilaria Cucchi speaks and embraces the carabiniere who first reported, starting the investigation into the beating in the carabinieri barracks on the evening of Stefano's arrest. "Ten years ago, while we were fighting in the wrong processes - added Ilaria - we didn't even imagine what was happening behind us and on our skin. Today we witnessed a blame game with General Casarsa who said that the causes of death of Stefano were dictated to him by the general Tomasone ".

The process will be faced, among others, by General Alessandro Casarsa, currently retired, former commander of the Corazzieri and at the time the commander of the Rome Group. The other defendants are Colonel Lorenzo Sabatino, former head of the Rome operational nucleus, accused of not reporting; Francesco Cavallo, at the time of the facts lieutenant colonel office manager of the Rome Group; Luciano Soligo, former commander of the Montesacro Company; Massimiliano Colombo Labriola, former commander of the Tor Sapienza station; Francesco Di Sano, at the time in service at Tor Sapienza; Tiziano Testarmata, former commander of the fourth section of the Investigative Unit and the carabiniere Luca De Cianni.

According to what was ascertained by the prosecutor's office, the chain of fakes based on the 'fake' service notes referring to Cucchi's state of health would start from a Casarsa input and was intended to cover the responsibilities of those carabinieri who caused Cucchi " the injuries that caused his death in the following days ". It is no coincidence that the trial of five soldiers, three of whom answer for the intentional murder for being the authors of the beating, is going before the assize court, then confessed months ago to the pm and reiterated in court by one of the defendants (the vice-sergeant Francesco Tedesco) who summoned his colleagues (also in court) Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro.

"Great respect for General Casarsa who came here to wait for the decision of the judge. A decision that I respect as all those who come from a judge, but do not agree." Thus stated the lawyer Carlo Longari, defender of Casarsa, after the decision of the GUP of Rome.