Eight Carabinieri officers risk
being sent to trial over a suspected cover-up of the police
brutality death of Rome draughtsman Stefano Cucchi in 2009,
sources said Tuesday. Prosecutors have wrapped up a probe into
the case in which the eight are under investigation.
They include General Alessandro Casarsa, who at the time was
the head of the force's Rome group, and Colonel Lorenzo
Sabatino.
The chain of false and doctored news and documents on
Cucchi's health started with Casarsa, according to the charge
sheet.
The suspects are accused of crimes including making false
statements, failure to report a crime, aiding and abetting and
calumny.
Casarsa and Cavallo are among five accused of making false
statements.
Cucchi's sister Ilaria said "those who made us suffer will
have to pay".
She said "in this time of emotional difficulty for our family
it is comforting to know that those who have caused us suffering
in all these years in wrongful trials will be called to answer
for what they did.
"It is a huge victory for our family and our justice", she
told reporters.
Cucchi allegedly died in 2009 due to injuries caused by a
beating by Carabinieri police.
One of five Carabinieri on trial in relation to Cucchi's
death has accused two others of the beating.
For several years the case looked set to end without anyone
being brought to justice for Cucchi's death, allegedly because
of the cover-up.
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