The prosecutor of Marsala ordered the immediate trial for the magistrate Maria Angioni, accused of false statements to the public prosecutor on the investigation into the disappearance of the little Denise Pipitone, who disappeared from Mazara del Vallo on 1 September 2004. The trial will begin on 23 December in front of the single judge of the Court of Marsala.
The magistrate – among the first deputy prosecutors to have dealt with the case – in recent months has been among the protagonists of some television programs dedicated to the Denise case, with the story of some unpublished details on the investigations carried out 17 years ago and alleged omissions. In recent months, the Public Prosecutor of Marsala has reopened the investigation, with a file for kidnapping. On 3 May Angioni – now on duty at the Sassari labor court – was heard for summary information by the prosecutors of Marsala, who questioned her again at the end of June, disputing some inaccuracies provided in the first report. “We will try, through a complete verification of the mother trial on Denise, to better anchor the memories of Angioni”, says the lawyer Stefano Pellegrino, lawyer of the magistrate, “in order to justify these discrepancies between what are the documents and what it is the memory of Angioni itself and eventually take note of it ».