Erba massacre, the defense shows the new evidence and reiterates the innocence of Olindo and Rosa

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Second hearing of the review process for Olindo Romano and Rosa Bazzi, definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for being the authors of Erba massacre. Today was the day of the defense: «There are three consultancies that describe a dynamic of the facts completely different from those of the sentence and make them incompatible Olindo and Rosa as guilty of the Erba massacre.” It is one of the passages of the speech of Fabio Schembrilawyer of Olindo Romano, sentenced to life imprisonment, together with his wife Rosa Bazzi, for the Erba massacre. In his reconstruction, in the hearing on the review of the trial underway in Brescia, underlines how the description of the murder of the neighbor Valeria Cherubini, one of the four victims of 11 December 2006, it is «a science fiction hypothesis. It is impossible that things happened as described in the sentence.”

The new evidence

In his discussion Schembri recalls how, with the blows received to the head and throat, Valeria Cherubini couldn’t have screamed ‘help’ as heard by first responders and that he would not have been able to climb the stairs to reach his apartment. «The new evidence suggests that the killer or killers were still in the house because they heard her scream, the new evidence attests that she was hit and this is an aspect that could become decisive today.” The dynamics of the massacre «is incompatible with Olindo and Rosa» because “they would have been seen by the first responders”, two neighbors who intervened on the “narrow landing” of the house Chestnut. «It’s impossible that they didn’t see them when they went out and even with the times we’re not there, it is impossible that no one in the full court saw them. We have an objective impossibility.”

The memories of Mario Frigerio

For the defense of Olindo Romano and Rosa Bazzi, sentenced to life imprisonment for the Erba massacre, the “most accurate” memory that provides Mario Frigerio, the only eyewitness to the quadruple murder, “is of an unknown subject of Arab ethnicity”. He supports it in the courtroom, in the review process underway in Brescia, Fabio Schembri one of the defenders of the former garbage collector. The lawyer offers new evidence to the judges of the appeal court: Frigerio “had anterograde amnesia”, he breathed “carbon monoxide” who has compromised important cognitive functions, «such as alterations in memory, in the ability to remember», has undergone «suggestive questions that can trigger a false memory exhibited during the trial. Frigerio loses lucidity, but it gets worse, not better, his condition was better in the first few days”, when – the defense claims – he does not remember his neighbor as his aggressor.

Skirmishes between prosecution and defense

During the hearing there was a brief skirmish in the courtroom between the defense of the spouses Romanothe attorney general Guido Rispoli and the state attorney Domenico Chiaro. During the defender’s intervention Nico D’Ascolathe representatives of the public prosecution visibly shook their heads, provoking the “reaction” of the lawyer: «The demonstrations should be limited of dissent because I didn’t make them when the prosecution spoke. We didn’t make any moves and we could have,” the lawyer said angrily as he saw the magistrates express disappointment, shaking their heads, at some passages of his speech. At that point the president intervened and asked them to stop.

Among other things, the prosecuting magistrates did not appreciate D’Ascola’s passage as an eyewitness. «There are extremely relevant wiretaps in which Frigerio tells his children not to remember anything»: these are the words of the lawyer who, alluding to the skepticism expressed by the magistrates also on this point, attacked: «Isn’t it true? We also noticed certain attitudes in the last hearing. We weren’t born yesterday.”

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