Graziano Mesina has been released from prison and is ready to return to Sardinia , after the request for a deferral of sentence for serious health reasons presented yesterday to the surveillance court of Milan was accepted .
Messina, 83, had been detained for two years in the Milanese prison of Opera and had been ill for some time . He is now being held in detention in a ward of the San Paolo hospital in Milan .
Since March 2023 , seven requests have been presented by lawyers Beatrice Goddi and Maria Luisa Vernier , who are assisting the former red primrose of Sardinian banditry, to ask that he be able to serve his sentence in an adequate facility .
Today, after the last request filed yesterday, the Milan supervisory court granted the deferment of sentence for health reasons. And the transfer to Sardinia, to Orgosolo, is expected soon, as explained by the lawyer Maria Luisa Vernier.
"Her health situation is very serious," explains Vernier, who specifies that the former Scarlet Pimpernel wants to "return home, she has never asked for anything else."
Tomorrow , the lawyer specifies, the meeting with the relatives to arrange the immediate transfer to the island .
