A Varese court on Friday
acquitted two Carabinieri and six police of manslaughter in the
death of Giuseppe Uva, who died in a Varese hospital in June
2008 after spending part of the night in a Carabinieri barracks.
The defendants embraced after the verdict while one of Uva's
relatives left the courtroom shouting "bastards". In January
Varese prosecutor Daniela Borgonovo requested that the six
police officers and two Carabinieri police on trial for
involuntary manslaughter in the death of crane operator Uva be
acquitted, saying "there is no proof of illegal behavior on the
part of the defendants". Uva was stopped by police overnight on
June 13 and died the next morning in hospital. Borgonovo said
the initial phase of the investigation was characterised by
"anomalies" that made it difficult to ascertain the truth, and
that testimony by Uva's friend Alberto Biggiogero, who was with
Uva on the night of his arrest, "isn't reliable".
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