It will take at least a month for
Milan prosecutors to send to a Brescia court a request for a
retrial in the December 2006 'Erba Massacre', judicial sources
said Monday.
Porsecutors in the Lombardy capital say they have gathered new
evidence in the case of Olindo Romano and Rosa Bazzi, a married
couple convicted of the December 2006 murder in the northern
town of Erba near Como of Raffaella Castagna, her two-year-old
son, her mother and a female neighbour.
Romano and Bazzi were definitively sentenced to life
imprisonment in 2010, and now they hope that the trial will be
reviewed.
For this crime, which took place on 11 December 2006, the
spouses Romano and Bazzi were definitively sentenced to life
imprisonment for the murder - with knife and crowbar, for
reasons related to neighborhood disputes - of Raffaella
Castagna, her 2-year-old son Youssef Marzouk, the grandmother of
the little Paola Galli and the neighbor Valeria Cherubini.
The sole survivor Mario Frigerio, husband of Cherubini, was a
direct witness of the massacre.
The apartment in via Diaz, after the massacre, was also set on
fire.
The request for a retrial, already attempted several times by
the defense of the couple represented by the lawyer Fabio
Schembri, is based on unpublished and never taken into
consideration interceptions and testimonies , according to what
the lawyer claims.
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