"No punitive expedition, just paternal protective instinct." This is how Mario Roggero 's family, on the jeweler's social media channels, returns to the 2005 episode, referring to an argument with the boyfriend of one of his daughters , during which he pulled out a gun and also threatened the young man's parents, for which he pleaded guilty in 2007. An episode that, after Roggero's 14-year sentence for the murder of two robbers on the run , is causing controversy.
In a post published yesterday evening, the family stated: "This is an incident that occurred 21 years ago, 16 years before the events at issue in the trial involving him. Secondly, it was an episode that has no connection whatsoever to the events at issue in today's sentencing."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also weighed in on the Roggero affair. "You can't give eight years to pedophiles or less than ten years for gang rapes, and then sentence this jeweler to die in prison. There 's a problem with the proportionality of the sentences," the prime minister stated in the Corriere della Sera.
Regarding Justice Minister Carlo Nordio's opening of the pardon request, Meloni claims it was she who gave the go-ahead for the Keeper of the Seals to take action : "Of course, I told him to go ahead. We have to call a spade a spade. The power to grant a pardon is one thing, and no one has ever questioned that this prerogative belongs exclusively to the Quirinale, but that doesn't prevent the Keeper of the Seals from initiating the proceedings."
(Unioneonline)