Locked up in a Cuban prison for 14 years, he launches an appeal to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to proclaim his innocence: "I have been convicted of murder but I was not on the island at the time and now I have the proof."
Writing to the prime minister is Simone Pini, a Florentine detained since 2010 in La Condesa, as reported by the local edition of La Nazione, sentenced to 25 years for the death of a young girl, together with two other Italians, following a red-light meeting, but since his arrest, which occurred on June 30, 2010, he has always professed to be extraneous to those accusations. "Today I am 56 years old, so I have spent up to today 14 years and two months disappeared inside a Cuban concentration camp with false defamatory accusations of a murder invented by the Cuban authorities, an event that occurred on a date when I was in Florence, Italy, with my birth family".
“Now I have that evidence in my hands too” and “currently that very important data is also in Italy”, he explains in the letter because thanks to a reform of the Cuban Constitution, which came into force in 2022, every citizen has the right to access their personal data.
Pini has come into possession of his own migratory flows which certify that, on the day of the murder, he was in Italy and not on the island, where he will disembark 11 days later. Data that Pini also delivered to the Italian embassy. Evidence that, however, he was never able to produce at the trial. Pini asks for Meloni's intervention to return to Italy. "In Cuba", he explains, "there is a law for non-resident foreign prisoners which provides for their conditional release and their expulsion from Cuban territory upon completion of half of their sentence when the offender meets the requirements of good behavior. This benefit has been denied to us several times without a single plausible reason".
(Online Union)
