The Court of Appeal of Palermo has confirmed the one-year suspended prison sentence issued in the first instance against Maria Angioni, the former prosecutor who investigated the disappearance of Denise Pipitone, the little girl who disappeared from Mazara del Vallo in September 2004.
The former Sardinian magistrate was accused of providing false information to the public prosecutor.
The Marsala Prosecutor's Office accused the PM of having fabricated a "castle of lies" about the kidnapping of the little girl and of having maliciously smeared the work of the police, who were accused by the defendant of obstructing the investigation.
"In bad faith, by slandering the Mazara del Vallo police station", Maria Angioni, "has shown absolute contempt for justice", said the prosecutor Roberto Piscitello during the closing speech at the first degree trial.
A harsh indictment against the former colleague who had denounced the contamination of the investigation on Denise that would have left those responsible for the kidnapping unpunished. Revelations made live on TV for months, considered "ravings" by the prosecutor who had spoken of "fibs" aimed at removing suspicions about his own professional incompetence given that Angioni herself was coordinating the investigation .
At the center of the trial are two statements by the woman: the first concerned the deactivation of a camera that, according to the defendant, could have provided useful elements to the investigation into the disappearance of the child and that would have been decided by the police without her knowledge . The investigators discovered that in reality the camera had been activated, for the first time, at the express request of the police and that it would have been deactivated by decision of the Prosecutor's Office, Angioni's office, in 2005.
