(ANSA) - Pavia, July 12 - A Pavia court on Friday sentenced
Ukraine national guard member Vitaly Markiv to 24 years in
absentia over the 2014 murder of Italian photoreporter Andrea
Rocchelli.
Markiv, 29, was found guilty of murdering Rocchelli on May 24
that year in the Donbass region, where Rocchelli was doing a
reportage.
Prosecutors had asked for a 17-year sentence for complicity
in murder while the defence requested an acquittal saying Markiv
was innocent.
Rocchelli was killed in an ambush near Sloviansk.
Ukraine guard gets 24 yrs for Rocchelli
Italian killed in Donbass in 2014