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09 December 2021 The Rome Prosecutor's Office has asked for the filing of the marines Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre accused of the murder of two Indian fishermen in February 2012 off the coast of Kerala, in south-western India. Prosecutor Michele Prestipino and deputy Erminio Amelio asked the investigating judge to drop the charges against the two Navy riflemen, because the framework of the evidence collected in recent years is not sufficient to guarantee the opening of a trial.



A file entrusted to prosecutor Erminio Amelio had been open since 2012 in piazzale Clodio.

The two riflemen had been questioned in the prosecutor's office last July.

Latorre and Girone were already listened to by the prosecutors of Rome on January 3, 2013 and in the same year the prosecutors from the Capitoline arranged an appraisal on the computer and on a camera that were on board the Enrica Lexie, the ship on which Latorre and Group.

At the end of the investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor Michele Prestipino and the prosecutor Amelio, he presents a picture of the evidence that is "insufficient to guarantee the establishment of a trial".