Three acquittals, two indictments in Scieri case

- 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.