- ROME, NOV 29 - A preliminary hearings judge (GUP) in
Florence on Monday acquitted three people and indicted two
others in the death of Emanuele Scieri, a 26-year-old
paratrooper with the Folgore Brigade who was found dead in a
Pisa barracks in August 1999.
The circumstances of Scieri's death remain unclear but
prosecutors think it may have been the result of hazing.
The GUP acquitted non-commissioned officer Andrea Antico, who
was charged with aggravated voluntary homicide, for not
committing the fact, and former Folgore officers, Enrico
Celentano and Salvatore Romondia, because the alleged fact did
not exist.
Two former corporals, Alessandro Panella and Luigi Zabara
were indicted.
Their trial will begin in April.
Investigators suspect Scieri was a victim of a "particularly
violent" episode of hazing at Pisa's Gamerra barracks.
Scieri was found dead at the foot of a ladder connected to a
parachute jump-training tower.
Autopsy results showed the man, a brand-new Folgore Brigade
trainee who had just arrived at the Gamerra barracks in Pisa,
suffered multiple injuries in the fall and survived for hours
before dying during the night between August 13 and 14.
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