The judge for the preliminary hearings of the Court of Cagliari , Giuseppe Pintori, has indicted the five generals, all former Chiefs of Staff, who ended up under investigation with the hypothesis of disaster in the context of the investigation into the effects of years of exercises in the Teulada shooting range .

Disregarding the requests of the public prosecutor Emanuele Secci, owner of the file, who had requested the non-proceedings, the Gup ordered that the trial be held , setting the date for January 25 next year before the second criminal college of the Cagliari court .

During the investigation, the Public Prosecutor's Office had ascertained the state of devastation of the "Delta Peninsula", an area of three square kilometers where, from 2008 to 2016, 860,000 training shots were fired, with 11,875 missiles, equal to 556 tons of war material . But at the end of the investigation, the prosecutor who owned the file had asked for it to be dismissed, obtaining the compulsory indictment order from the investigating magistrate Alessandra Tedde.

During the preliminary hearing, believing in any case that he did not have the elements to be able to bear an accusation in court, the magistrate of the Public Prosecutor's Office had asked to acquit the five generals .

Instead, they will have to appear before the judges to answer for the disaster Giuseppe Valotto , 76 years old from Venice; Claudio Graziano , aged 69, from Turin, then head of the Military Committee of the European Union; Danilo Errico , also 69 years old and residing in Turin; Domenico Rossi , 71, from Rome, and Sandro Santroni , 72, from Ancona.

The requests of the civil parties were therefore accepted, who had renewed the request to the judge to have a hearing held to establish any responsibility for the disaster.

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