The Italian State on Tuesday
dropped an appeal against a symbolic one-euro damages payment to
the family of Davide Cervia, a cyberwars expert and navy
sergeant who disappeared 28 years ago.
The damages were ordered by a court which said the family's
rights to the truth had been breached.
Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said Tuesday the appeal
was being pulled and she "recognised the errors of the State,
towards a family that deserves respect and truth".
Cervia disappeared mysteriously in Velletri in 1990.
It was later shown that he was kidnapped.
The family received various reports over the years saying
Cervia had been killed in a bombing in Baghdad or other places
in the Middle East.
But it is still fighting for the truth.
photo: Cervia's wife Marisa Gentile Cervia
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