None of them asked for the shortened procedure. The five former chiefs of staff who came under investigation for environmental disaster as part of the investigation into the effects of years of military exercises in the Capo Teulada range did not want alternative rituals. If they were sent for trial, they would therefore go to trial.

The preliminary hearing

Before the Gup of the Court of Cagliari, Giuseppe Pintori, the preliminary hearing opened yesterday morning which will have to decide precisely on the request to celebrate a trial formulated by the prosecutor Emanuele Secci against the current head of the Military Committee of the European Union and former Chief of Staff, Claudio Graziano (69 years), investigated together with his predecessors Danilo Errico (69), Domenico Rossi (71, the only one present in the courtroom), Sandro Santroni (72) and Giuseppe Valotto (76 years).

Forced indictment

The investigating magistrate had actually asked for the dismissal , not because there were doubts about the extent of the disaster caused in that corner of Sardinia by years of bombing, but because he believed it could not be attributed to the five very high officers under investigation.

The investigating judge Alessandra Tedde instead ordered the forced indictment for environmental disaster . The soldiers are defended by lawyers Guido Manca Bitti, Luigi Vincenzo of the Rome bar and Luca Carlo Montella of the Sassari bar.

The investigation had also hypothesized the multiple culpable homicide of soldiers and citizens who died of serious diseases around the polygon area: even that request for dismissal of the prosecutor was rejected by judge Tedde, who after having acquitted Graziano for not having committed the fact, he asked the prosecutor to carry out new epidemiological investigations.

The civil parties

The environmentalists of the Legal Intervention Group, the Party for the Protection of the Rights of the Military, the Region of Sardinia and 12 citizens of Teulada, among which there are mothers and relatives of dead people who are offended parties, have asked to be a civil party. in the manslaughter proceeding.

The judge has allowed the defenses until June 10 to prepare to discuss, the decision on the indictment could instead arrive on June 17 .

The investigations

At the center of the investigation was the devastation of the so-called "Delta peninsula", the heart of the military polygon , a corner of the coast of less than three square kilometers where from 2008 to 2016 860 thousand training rounds were fired, with 11,875 missiles , equal to 556 tons of war material .

(Unioneonline)

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