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February 6, 2020 "It was peaceful" that Stefano Cucchi, on the evening of his arrest, "had not only and not so much refused to submit to the photo report but had also insulted the soldiers who were legitimately carrying out their service, keeping at least an outrageous conduct towards them. " But, explains the Rome Assize Court in the grounds of the sentence on the beating and death of the 31-year-old surveyor, "it is indisputable that the reaction then held" by the two convicted carabinieri "was unlawful and absolutely unjustifiable".

That of the two defendants - the court said - was "a violent action perpetrated during the course of the service of the institution, therefore, on the one hand making a distorted use of the coercive powers inherent in their service, in another aspect violating the duty to protect the physical safety of the person, decidedly minute and of less complex physical complexion than the two military, subject to their control ".

No clinical evidence of epilepsy
"The medico-legal prospect that led the causal mechanism of Stefano Cucchi's death to a multi-factorial chain in which essential, if not unique, resulted a vagal reflex connected to the neurogenic bladder originating from the lesion in S4, is absolutely founded and acceptable. to determine a lethal arrhythmia ".

The assize court of Rome writes that underlines "the inconsistency of the thesis of death for Sudep (sudden death from epilepsy from patients in good health, emerged from the expert's report in the evidentiary accident, ed), mere hypothesis not supported, indeed denied, by any clinical evidence ".

Cucchi was fine
The judges of the Assize Court of Rome write in the grounds of the sentence with which they sentenced the two carabinieri, Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro, to 12 years for pre-intentional murder and Marshal Roberto Mandolini and the carabiniere Francesco Tedesco for false, regarding the death of the Roman surveyor in 2009: "Stefano Cucchi, living until the evening of October 15, 2009, in a condition of substantial well-being, if he had not suffered a traumatic event", in the room used for photosigning the Casilina barracks, that is, "an injurious action inflicted by someone, would not have suffered from multiple and serious injuries, with the establishment of ascertained pathologies that led to his hospitalization and from there to that progressive aggravation of his conditions that led to his death".