Rosa Bazzi, definitively sentenced to life imprisonment with her husband Olindo Romano as authors of the Erba massacre, is once again in the dock, this time on charges of defamation.
In fact, the trial in which Bazzi was accused together with the Iene journalist Antonino Monteleone and the author of the Mediaset program Marco Occhipinti was opened in court in Como with a request relating to territorial jurisdiction, and was then postponed to November.
A proceeding in which Pietro Castagna, brother of Raffaella and son of Paola Galli, who died in the massacre of December 2006 together with little Youssef and the neighbor Valeria Cherubini, declared himself an injured party.
The objection of territorial jurisdiction, Monza and not Como, was presented by the defense lawyers and the judge reserved a decision for the next hearing.
The story relates to a 2019 episode of the program Le Iene in which an exclusive interview with Rosa Bazzi was broadcast, in which the woman had declared herself innocent of the murder charges and in which she had pointed the finger at Castagna family, who lost three members in the massacre.
«Mrs. Rosa was allowed to say, live on Italia 1, that she wanted to sit at a table with me and look me in the eyes and understand who, between me and her, was the real murderer», Pietro Castagna told the Anime Nere podcast of the newspaper La Province of Como.
“I invite anyone to think of sitting on the sofa in front of the television and hearing the murderer of your loved ones being allowed to say such a sentence,” he added.
(Unioneonline/lf)
