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July 26, 2020

"If you don't collaborate, if you don't give me work, in one way or another I will screw you and send you back to Brazil". These are the threats that the commander of the Levante station of the Carabinieri of Piacenza, Marshal Marco Orlando, would have addressed to a transsexual on several occasions already a year and a half ago, when the 'criminal system' set up in the barracks, according to the accusations of the power of attorney, he was still unknown.

The trans - a Brazilian from Piacenza who has been calling Francesca for some time - through her lawyer Elena Concarotti presented the magistrates with a request to be heard as an offended person. "I've been threatened multiple times," she says, claiming that she was forced to have sex and was beaten once inside the barracks.

Questioned Montella, the attorney of the defendant: "Enough with Scarface's reconstructions"
"We have given the maximum availability to a complete collaboration with the investigators. Moreover, if an interrogation lasts three hours it means that there is collaboration". So the lawyer Emanuele Solari after the interrogation of the guarantee of his client, the officer of the carabinieri Giuseppe Montella, at the center of the investigation, coordinated by the chief prosecutor of Piacenza Grazia Pradella with the substitutes Antonio Colonna and Matteo Centini.

An investigation involving the carabinieri of the Piacenza Levante station since 2017, with a round of illegal arrests, drug dealing, beatings and extortions both for economic purposes and to increase their professional prestige. The pinned Montella, says the investigating judge in the ordinance, was convinced that he could keep "any type of behavior, going above the law and any rule of civil coexistence". The lawyer Emanuele Solari spoke, however, of facts reported in an exaggerated way and of a strong will of his client to give explanations.

"There is no direction, there are facts that must be explained" continued the lawyer of the accused Montella who then invited journalists to be "cautious and sober", avoiding to describe the carabiniere who "is very tried and heartbroken "with" Scarface tales. It is not good for the family, for the son who reads the father in the newspapers, and it is not a good service to justice and journalism. It is a complex situation - said lawyer Solari - and there is a will to explain. " "You can be mistaken for naivety or vanity," concluded the lawyer.