The beating inflicted on Stefano Cucchi , massacred in the barracks of the Rome Casilina carabinieri on the night of October 16, 2009, was the "primary cause" of a series of "supervening factors", including the "negligent omissions of the health workers", which caused the death of the Roman surveyor.

The Court of Cassation writes it in black and white in the reasons for the sentence with which it sentenced to 12 years in prison the soldiers of the Arma Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro who "beaten" the young man arrested for drug possession. The death occurred a week later while he was hospitalized at the Pertini hospital, with the catheter and the bladder full to the brim, among the "negligent omissions" of the white coats .

The Court, commented Fabio Anselmo, historical defender of the Cucchi family, "says exactly what we have argued for twelve years, and since the first trial, on the causes of Stefano's death: the reasons speak of the beating by two carabinieri, made which paved the way for the dramatic outcome of Stefano's death, and we dedicate them to those who in recent years have thrown mud on the Cucchi family and on Stefano, claiming that he died not of blows but because he did not eat, or for other falsehoods of the same kind ".

As for the fact that the perpetrators of the beating were aware of what they were doing and the possibility that the Roman surveyor could also die, the stoats write that "the question of the predictability of the event" of injuries and then of death, in the case of violent blows suffered by Cucchi, "it is certainly out of the question, given the ways in which the accused struck the victim, with violent blows to the face and in the sacral area , that is, in a way suitable to generate internal injuries that anyone is able to represent as a foreseeable consequence of this action ".

This is the argument with which the appeals of the defenses of the two carabinieri sentenced to twelve years were rejected - sentence reduced by one year compared to the appeal, with the granting of extenuating circumstances - which supported the "anomalous course" of Stefano's death, speaking of his being frail and of the refusal of food and water.