Cucchi case, the two carabinieri sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter
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October 18, 2021 Stefano Cucchi was attacked with "unjustified and disproportionate" violence on October 15, 2009 when he was arrested and beaten in the police station in Rome.
This was written by the judges of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome in the motivations of the sentence with which the two soldiers responsible for the beating were sentenced to 13 years: Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro.
"The victim is hit with repeated unjustified and disproportionate actions - the judges write - with respect to the arrested person's attempt to hit the public official with a purely figurative gesture inserted in a context of mutual insults initially carried out by the carabiniere Di Bernardo and the arrested, which, in the given context, expresses the simple refusal to undergo photo-signaling ".
According to the court, "the disproportion between the altercation that arose between Di Bernardo and Cucchi with respect to the extent of the aggression suffered by the latter in which D'Alessandro participated" can be considered as ascertained. "The violent modalities with which the beating against the arrested person was consummated - the judges added - weak in the physical structure, express in the modalities of the action that has transformed the simple intention of reacting to the mere resistance of the arrested person to the execution of the photo signaling ".
Di Bernardo and D'Alessandro were sentenced to 13 years in prison, while four years were inflicted on Marshal Roberto Mandolini, for covering up what happened, and two and a half years in prison for forgery to Francesco Tedesco who, initially accused for the beating, during the first degree trial he denounced his colleagues becoming a key witness from the prosecution.