The undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro was sent to trial by the Gup of Rome as part of the proceedings in which he is accused of revealing official secrecy for having disseminated the content of documents on the case of the anarchist Alfredo Cospito, locked up under 41bis in Sassari prison, despite knowing that they were covered by secrecy.
The trial will begin on March 12th.
"We were confident in a different decision because there were all the conditions for a ruling of no place to proceed," commented Delmastro's lawyer, Giuseppe Valentino.
During the hearing before the Gup , the Rome Prosecutor's Office also reiterated the request - already made in July - not to proceed .
The Judge for the preliminary hearing Maddalena Cipriani, after a deliberation lasting over an hour, essentially accepted the approach of her colleague Emanuela Attura who had ordered the forced indictment of Delmastro, rejecting the Prosecutor's request for dismissal. In that request, the prosecutors had recognized the violation of secrecy which, however, they said, was missing "the subjective element" of the crime, i.e. malicious intent.
«I didn't expect it, like the prosecutors who twice asked for my acquittal. I will go to trial peacefully" commented the undersecretary, underlining the "anomaly" of a proceeding in which the accused "is teamed up with the prosecutors", given that the prosecutors had asked for it to be dismissed. In any case, he added, he would make the same choices today. «I am extraordinarily proud of not having kept secret a fact of unprecedented gravity, that is, that anarchist terrorists in cahoots with mafia criminals attempted to carry out a concentric attack on 41 bis».
The proceedings revolve around the declarations made last February by Copasir vice-president Giovanni Donzelli, Delmastro's party colleague. He reported to the Chamber the contents of conversations that took place during free time in the Sassari prison between Cospito - then the protagonist of a long hunger strike to protest against the hard prison regime - and Camorra and 'Ndrangheta inmates, also at 41 BIS. Information that Donzelli had received from his party colleague and roommate at the time of the events Delmastro, who has the delegation to the Dap.
What the undersecretary reported to Donzelli was part of a Dap report prepared on the basis of observation of prisoners in prison and which Delmastro himself had asked to see. The talks indicated the hope that the battle against hard prison would become a common battle between mafia bosses and anarchist. The investigation was started in Piazzale Clodio after a complaint presented by the Green MP, Angelo Bonelli, who asked the magistrates to verify the possible violation of secrecy.
(Unioneonline/D)
