Fourteen years in prison : this is the sentence requested by the Asti prosecutor Davide Greco for Mario Roggero, the jeweler on trial for the shooting that occurred two and a half years ago outside his shop in Grinzane Cavour , in the Cuneo area.
The man is accused of the murder of two robbers and the attempted murder of a third . The three had robbed his shop and Roggero shot in the street, while the criminals were fleeing with the loot. The charge went from excessive self-defense to murder because it emerged that the jeweler had emptied his entire magazine at the robbers.
The criminals, armed with a toy gun and a knife, were chased out of the shop and shot while they were getting into the car: Giuseppe Mazzarino immediately collapsed, Andrea Spinelli fled on foot before falling to the ground a few meters ahead, only the driver Alessandro Modica managed to walk away, although injured.
The Prosecutor's Office made no concessions on the partial mental defect claimed by the defense: «Roggero is not suffering from pathologies, his conduct has a criminal logic, revenge». According to the prosecutor, the accused " claimed the right to violate the right to life for revenge and to reintroduce the death penalty into our system, and even today he is convinced that he did the right thing ".
To support his thesis, the prosecutor also recalled an episode from 2005, for which the 68-year-old negotiated a sentence, when armed and threatened the boyfriend of one of his daughters: «He was already a private vigilante, impulsive, irascible , a clear demonstration of inability, not psychiatric but character, to control oneself".
The accused's version
«I'm sorry for all the serious situation we are experiencing, for the people who have passed away, for the anxiety that has been created for our family: we too are victims of this tragedy », Roggero began.
Then he tried to provide a justification for what happened: " I feared they had taken my wife hostage, failing to complete the robbery ." However, Roggero is unable to explain why he didn't remember passing by his wife as he went out in pursuit of the robbers: "I was amazed when I saw the videos, I don't have that frame in my head but that video is biased and denigrating."
(Unioneonline/L)