Death of Martina Rossi, Supreme Court cancels acquittals: "Appeal bis for defendants"

2021-01-21T20:13:01.012Z

New Appeal process for Alessandro Albertoni and Luca Vanneschi. This is what the judges of the III Criminal Section of the Supreme Court decided in the trial on the case of Martina Rossi, the twenty-year-old Ligurian who died falling from the balcony of a hotel room in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on August 3, 2011. The Supreme Judges, with the decision that arrived in the evening, they annulled the acquittal sentence by arranging a new trial for the two accused as requested, during the indictment, by the deputy attorney general Domenico Seccia and thus accepting the appeals presented by the Florence public prosecutor and the civil parties . Martina's parents, Bruno Rossi and Franca Murialdo attended the reading of the device. The two defendants on 9 June 2020 had been acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Florence "because the fact does not exist", effectively reversing the verdict of the Court of Arezzo. In the first instance, on 14 December 2018, the two had been sentenced by the Arezzo judges to 6 years in prison for attempted sexual violence and for causing the death of the young woman as a result of another crime: the latter crime was then extinguished for statute of limitations. A sentence that comes ten years after the events when Martina Rossi was on vacation on the Balearic island with some friends and at dawn on August 3, 2011, returning from a night at the disco, she fell from the balcony of room 609, that of the two young men from Castiglion Fibocchi. After the investigation in Spain, where the death was filed as a suicide, Martina's parents struggled to get the case reopened. The Italian investigation, launched in Genoa, passed by territorial jurisdiction to Arezzo where the first degree of judgment was held with the conviction of the two accused. Sentence then overturned in Florence by the judges of the Court of Appeal.