Rassoul Bissoultanov, the Chechen accused by Italian justice of the murder of Niccolò Ciatti , the 22-year-old from Scandicci (Florence) beaten to death on 11 August 2017 while he was with friends in a nightclub in Lloret de Mar, has returned to Spain. in Spain.

Two trials are pending on the Chechen for the same fact, one in Italy, already underway, where he risks life imprisonment, and one in Spain, where the penalty is lower, which will start on 30 May next. It was he who asked the Iberian authorities, who had indicted him in the course of an investigation parallel to the Italian one, to be tried in Spain. Request accepted.

"His is definitely a defensive strategy, it aims not at impunity but at immunity", says the lawyer of the Ciatti family, the lawyer Agnese Usai. On March 17, the Court of Assizes of Rome will have to rule on the objection of territorial jurisdiction presented by the defenders of Bissoultanov, according to whom the trial should be held in Spain. If the judges say that the jurisdiction is Italian, explains the lawyer Usai, then the trial that is taking place in Rome will go on, but the one in Spain, which will last a week, will certainly end earlier: "The general rule - explains Usai - he says that when there is a conflict of jurisdiction and the two countries do not agree, whoever finishes first wins ".

If, on the other hand, the Corte di Assise recognizes Spanish jurisdiction, the process in Italy will be blocked. At that point, the lawyer Usai speculates, Bissoultanov could also choose to evade the trial in Spain, "where those who are not present are not tried". "His is certainly a strategy dictated by the defense - reiterates Usai -, and in all this the real victims are Niccolò's parents who lost a child in that way".

THE FATHER OF CIATTI: "DISAPPOINTED" - "I am disappointed and embittered. And at this point I am also perplexed about the sense of justice, he took my son's life and now he says it was an accident. I hope that it will arrive in any case to a sentence, and that the maximum possible penalty is imposed ", the comment of Luigi Ciatti, the father of the 22-year-old killed.