Rassoul Bissoultanov, one of the two Chechens accused of the murder of Niccolò Ciatti, the 22-year-old Florentine beaten to death on 11 August 2017 in a nightclub in Lloret de Mar in Spain, is released (again).

The news was made known by Niccolò's father, Luigi Ciatti, and confirmed by Agnese Usai, the family's lawyer. The release is linked to a lack of admissibility that effectively cancels the measure: the judges found that Bissoultanov was not present on Italian territory when the precautionary detention order was issued against him.

The Chechen, it was he who delivered the fatal kick to the young Florentine, would have already left the Rebibbia prison where he was being held.

Bissoultanov, initially arrested in Spain, was released due to the expiry of the terms of pre-trial detention. Then he was arrested again (he was in Germany despite the obligation to sign in Spain) on the basis of a European arrest warrant requested by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, competent to investigate crimes committed against Italians abroad.

He was in his cell awaiting the trial for voluntary murder, whose first hearing is set for January 18, 2022 in front of the court of Rome. The fear of the lawyer and the Ciatti family is that the Chechen may have already left Italy, and that the trial must be held in absentia.

"We are left with only bitterness, sadness, tears and anger, we are unable to give a minimum of justice to Niccolò", the words of Luigi Ciatti. "I feel so much anger - he continues - and then I can't think of my wife, we will never get out of this story but now it's even worse, we are completely destroyed. I don't know why we deserve all this".

(Unioneonline / L)