23 years after the death of Emanuele Scieri , the first trial opens tomorrow in the Court of Assizes which will have to establish the truth about the case of the 26-year-old from Syracuse and the parry of the Thunderbolt found a corpse at the foot of a parachute drainage tower on the 16th. August 1999 in the Gamerra barracks in Pisa.
Two former corporals are accused: Alessandro Panella, 42, and Luigi Zabara, 44, accused of aggravated voluntary homicide in competition. A third former corporal, Andrea Antico, 42, still serving in the Army, was acquitted of the accusation of complicity in murder on November 29 by the GUP, after having chosen the abbreviated procedure.
Two other defendants, accused of aiding and abetting, were acquitted by the GUP at the trial with the shortened rite last November: they are the former officer Salvatore Romondia, 75, and General Enrico Celentano, 78, at the time commander of the Thunderbolt.
Scieri was found lifeless in the military base, plunged into the void after climbing the ladder of a training turret. For years it was thought of a suicide until in 2017 the Public Prosecutor of Pisa reopened the investigation hypothesizing the murder.
According to investigators Scieri, as soon as he arrived in Pisa after the Car carried out in Florence, he was the victim of an act of hazing in the late evening of August 13, 1999: he was induced to climb a ten-meter-high ladder, used to dry parachutes, by where it fell "as a result of the acts of violence and threat in progress". There he was left in agony until he was found, three days later, when he was now dead.
Tomorrow in the courtroom there will also be Scieri's mother and brother who have filed a civil action.
(Unioneonline / D)