A 51-year-old man from
Fragagnano near Taranto in Puglia was released from prison
Thursday after being cleared of a murder committed in 1995.
Angelo Massaro served over 20 years for killing a young man,
Lorenzo Fersurella, near Taranto.
"I'm happy, but nothing will be able to offset the suffering
I've undergone in these 20 years," Massaro said.
"Now I want justice. If someone made a mistake I want him to
pay".
Massaro said "I will fight so that what happened to me
doesn't happen to anyone else".
Massaro got his high-school diploma during his incarceration
and also enrolled in Catanzaro University's law faculty, taking
five exams on good-conduct furloughs over the last year, which
helped him draft part of his appeal.
Massaro was convicted on the basis of a wiretap and an
informant's tip-off but cleared at an appeal ordered by the
supreme Court of Cassation when his lawyer managed to show he
had been somewhere else on the night of the murder.
Massaro's case was the subject of a parliamentary question
from the Radical Party.
One of his two lawyers said: "It's not easy after 21 years
always in a cell to now see cars, bars, streets. The world has
changed. His head is spinning, he's afraid. He really feels out
of place".
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