Death Martina Rossi, Cassation annuls acquittals: "Appeal bis for defendants"

2021-10-07T16:49:05.569Z

New Appeal process for Alessandro Albertoni and Luca Vanneschi. This is what the judges of the III Criminal Section of the Cassation 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 defendants as requested, during the indictment, by the deputy attorney general Domenico Seccia and thus accepting the appeals presented by the public prosecutor of Florence 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 were acquitted by the Court ofAppeal 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 of imprisonment 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, it passed for 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. Father Martina: relief, now clarity "We did it. This cancellation was essential to clarify." So Bruno Rossi, Martina's father, comments on the sentence. "Now we work to have the minimum of justice. Martina will not give it back to me, but at least we will know what happened that night. They tried in every way to destroy me and my wife. To tell another story. I'm tougher than them and I've never given up. " "I was very disappointed after the appeal sentence. Those reasons - he added - canceled the work of the police,of the first judges. Then to think that those reasons were written by a woman I can not swallow it. Didn't she think it could happen to her too, to her daughters? You put on red shoes and then when you have the opportunity to punish those who harm a woman, do things differently "." Now you have to fight against time to avoid the limitation - concludes Rossi - and get to re-establish the truth for Martina , because he deserves it ". Legal Vanneschi: we will appeal" We will appeal. I was thinking about the confirmation of the acquittal as there was no evidence against the boys. However, the fact that the council chamber lasted a long time means that there are doubts. I want to remember that on the dock there were not the boys but the appeal sentence.Thus continues the suffering of two families exhausted by this story ", says Stefano Buricchi, defender of Luca Vanneschi.