The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office denied the request for house arrest submitted yesterday to the investigating judge by Valter Lavitola's lawyer, following the preliminary hearing during which he confessed to instigating the attack on journalist Sigfrido Ranucci . This afternoon, the Rome investigating judge rejected the request of lawyer Sergio Cola , who had based his request on Lavitola's "admission of responsibility" and subsequent cooperation with investigators. Furthermore, the lawyer now faces no risk of tampering with evidence or fleeing.
Meanwhile, new details are emerging about Lavitola's statements to prosecutors : he admitted to ordering the attack, but specified that he asked the perpetrators to carry out the attack using "different methods." Not a single explosive device, therefore, but "four or five gunshots fired at the wall" of the Report host's house in Pomezia , a town near Rome, as he told the investigating judge yesterday.
After the bombing raid last October - according to what we have learned - the suspect had nothing to say, considering the explosion of a rudimentary device to be of "demonstrative value".
RANUCCI'S POSITION – Following the analysis of Valter Lavitola's cell phone and computer, investigators from the Rome prosecutor's office may now summon Sigfrido Ranucci to interview him as a person informed of the facts. According to information, the technical analysis of the devices will last several weeks, and therefore, a possible hearing of the Report host could be scheduled no earlier than September . The preliminary investigation would be necessary in light of the investigation's developments, beginning with the entrepreneur's confession yesterday. During preliminary hearings before the investigating judge, during preliminary hearings, he confessed to having instigated the attack last October and to having carried it out with the aim of "increasing Ranucci's security detail, who had been the target of numerous threats."
Meanwhile, the gang's lawyers met with their clients in prison today. The four may soon request a rehearsal by the investigating officers.
(Unioneonline/vl)
