Carabinieri and police acquitted in Uva

(ANSA) - Varese, April 15 - 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".