The confession of the accused was induced, the only eyewitness was unreliable and the bloodstain which served as “evidence” was poorly found. Olindo Romano e Rosa Bazzi in all three levels of trial they were found guilty of the Erba massacre “beyond reasonable doubt”. But the doubts feared by their defenders, by the deputy attorney general of Milan Cuno Tarfusser and from a large group of innocentists there are many. And now, for the first time, they will be examined by the judges of the Court of Appeal of Brescia.
In the 58 pages of the request with which Tarfusser requested the review of the trial for the spouses, the three “pillars of evidence” which led to their life sentence for killing with a knife and bar are first of all called into question. , on 11 December 2006, Raffaella Castagna, her 2-year-old son Youssef Marzouk, the little girl’s grandmother Paola Galli and the neighbor Valeria Cherubini. The latter’s husband, Mario Frigerio, wounded with a blow to the throat, managed to save himself thanks to a congenital malformation of the carotid artery which prevented him from bleeding to death.
Olindo and Rosa, why was the request for review of the trial accepted? From new witnesses to consultations: the Court’s decision