Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini has called Mario Roggero, the jeweller who on
Monday got a 17-year prison term for killing two robbers that
tried to hold up his shop in April 2021 and injuring a third
bandit, Salvini's League party said on Tuesday.
Salvini expressed "human closeness to Mario Roggero and his
family" and promised "to stay in touch and not to forget his
case" during the call, the League said.
In Italy convictions are not considered definitive until the
appeals process has been exhausted.
A court in the northern city of Asti found Roggero guilty of the
homicides of Giuseppe Mazzarino, 58, and Andrea Spinelli, 44,
and the attempted homicide of Alessandro Modica.
The latter managed to get away despite suffering an injury to
the leg in the robbery at the shop in the province of Cuneo town
of Grinzane Cavour.
He was arrested hours later.
The prosecutor had requested a 14--year term for Roggero, who is
68.
"The word defence jars with the video (of the shooting), in
which we saw an execution," the prosecutor had said when making
a request for a conviction.
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