Denise Pipitone, the former prosecutor Angioni portrayed in the classroom

Twist of the scene at the trial of the former prosecutor Maria Angioni , accused in front of the single judge, of false information to the public prosecutor.

The former magistrate , originally from Sassari , who investigated the disappearance of little Denise Pipitone , who disappeared from Mazara del Vallo in 2004, and who after years denounced misdirections in the investigation, is accused of having lied in several circumstances to colleagues of Marsala .

Among the complaints made to Angioni that of having told the false about the existence of a surveillance camera that could have intercepted the conversations of Jessica Pulizzi, sister-sister of the child at the time under investigation, and which would have been maliciously deactivated by the police.

At the trial, as defense witnesses, he deposed the former Carabinieri Marshal Francesco Lombardo , at the time of Denise's disappearance as head of the judicial police. Lombardo last year worked as a consultant at the lawyer Giacomo Frazzitta, lawyer of Piera Maggio, the child's mother.

In April, the former marshal sent a message to Angioni revealing the existence of a second camera located in via Pirandello whose operation would not be extended . A lack that , according to the defense of Maggio and Angioni itself, would have jeopardized the investigations . The message was produced in the proceedings.

During the cross-examination, at the request of the prosecutor Roberto Piscitello, the witness admitted that he did not know anything about the second camera and that the information erroneously reported to Angioni derived only from what he had read in some papers of the Frazzitta studio which, however, he was unable to indicate. At the end of a long trial, Jessica was acquitted of kidnapping charges.

A year ago the investigation into Denise's disappearance was reopened, also on the basis of the Angioni report: this time Jessica's mother, Anna Corona, was entered in the register of suspects. Months ago, the prosecutor asked for the investigation to be closed due to lack of sufficient elements to ask for a trial for the woman.

(Unioneonline / vl)