Rome, 8 ottobre 2021 – He is dead, struck down by an incurable disease, Sergio Brugiatelli, the 49-year-old key witness on behalf of the Rome prosecutor’s office of the culminating in July 2019 with themurder of the Deputy Brigadier of the Carabinieri Mario Cerciello Rega. Brugiatelli’s death, which took place in a clinic in the capital, dates back to last September 26. The clarification comes from his defender, l‘lawyer Andrea Volpini, civil party in the Cerciello trial, initially the news of Brugiadelli’s death in his home was spread: “Brugiatelli he had discovered he had a tumor since last spring, but by now his health was practically compromised. On 28 September, the funeral was publicly celebrated in the Marconi district, where he lived. There is really no mystery around his death, contrary to what some press outlets reported today. This morning his sister called me in tears, very shaken, because the pain is still alive and she could not understand why the press reported the news of Sergio’s death in these terms.
Among other things, “It is not at all true that Brugiatelli was an eyewitness to the murder – explained the criminal lawyer -. It is true that the whole affair began with him, when the two Americans Hjort and Elder (sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree, ed) ran away with his backpack and he immediately filed a complaint telling Cerciello and the colleague Andrea Varriale. He was a witness for the prosecution, because he provided useful information to identify the two Americans, but you never saw anything about the ambush that took place in the Prati neighborhood. “He” died surrounded by the affection of his loved ones, who never abandoned him, until the last moments. ”Al funeral, last September 28thfriends and relatives took part in the parish of the neighborhood where he resided. “The family asks for respect for their pain. Respect that unfortunately has failed in some of the reconstructions released today “, he concludes.
The memory of the murdered deputy sergeant
The 25 last September in Somma Vesuviana (Naples) the ceremony in memory of the deputy sergeant assassinated in Rome in July 2019. “A Rosa Maria Exile, to whom my heartfelt closeness goes for the serious loss, I want to assure that it is a specific commitment of all of us to keep alive the memory of the husband killed with cowardice during an external service aimed at fighting urban crime »”. The message sent, on that occasion, by Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese. The minister recalled having “had the honor of handing over to his wife gold medal for civil valor in memory“And underlined that the death of the deputy brigadier” is the extreme testimony of the courage and passion that characterizes the women and men of the police forces, always willing to put their safety at risk with altruism and courage to ensure the safety of citizens “. It is “very important – concluded Lamorgese – that today’s ceremony sees the participation of young people and students, because it is to them who constitute our future, we must have the ability to pass on the values that have guided Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello in his life. Rega “.
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