The trial that sees in the dock Maria Angioni, the former Sassari prosecutor accused of false information to the public prosecutor in the case of Denise Pipitone's disappearance, kicks off tomorrow, in particular in relation to the bis investigation. The girl passed away in September 2004, at just under 4 years old, in Mazara del Vallo. In September of that year Angioni was prosecutor in Marsala and had been, with the then chief prosecutor of Marsala Antonino Silvio Sciuto and with his colleague Luigi Boccia, one of the first magistrates to coordinate the investigation into the matter.
On 3 May, following the statements made on TV in which she spoke of attempts to mislead and obstruct the investigations, the Public Prosecutor of Marsala called her as a "person informed of the facts". To the prosecutors, Angioni would have spoken of a safety net around the extended Pulizzi-Corona family. But some circumstances reported by her were then not reflected in the investigative documents, and on June 4 she was reached by a guarantee notice with an invitation to appear in Marsala as a suspect.
Three episodes are alleged to be contested, but her lawyer, the lawyer Stefano Pellegrino, stated that these are "bad memories in good faith", which would be due to simple confusion determined by the complexity of the case and the temporal distance from the facts, over 17 years.
"I didn't start and carry on this whole thing to waste time, and waste important opportunities to re-establish useful truths - wrote Angioni on Facebook -. I'm certainly not afraid. The prosecutors of Marsala will surely be convinced of the good reasons for the accusation. on the other hand I have the right not only to defend myself, but also to bring any problematic situation, within the context of the facts that have been contested to me, before the judge, in a public trial. At the time of the investigation for Denise's kidnapping Pipitone I have encountered many problems, and I believe that it is useless and harmful to go on trying to understand what happened to the child, if we do not get to grips with those problems first ".
