In the ongoing trial in Kinshasa, Congo, against the six defendants for the killing of Ambassador Luca Attanasio , the diplomat who was ambushed together with the driver Mustapha Milambo in Congo by carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci - the Italian State (civil and long committed at international level against capital punishment) has asked for the sentence of imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty for the defendants.
The request was notified during today's hearing dedicated to the defense argument.
This was learned from the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo where last Tuesday the prosecution of the military tribunal had asked for the death penalty for the five Congolese in prison and a sixth fugitive.
The request finds the ambassador's family in agreement: « Adding death to death is useless. If not to bring more pain . We are against it, Luca would have been against it», explains the father of the ambassador, Salvatore Attanasio , in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Adding: «We are against the death penalty. Our Constitution, our civic sense, our Catholic education say so. They are the same principles with which our son identified. Capital punishment can never ease the pain of our family."
(Unioneonline/lf)
