A 51-year-old man from
Fragagnano near Taranto 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 through his
lawyers.
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 proved 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 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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