C.like every self-respecting spring, One day in the district court come back with 4 special appointments in the late evening on Rai 3 (every Saturday from tonight).
The cult program conceived and conducted by Roberta Petrelluzzi will face cases extremely topical. Like the death of the carabiniere in 2019 Mario Cerciello Regathe murder of the painter Renata Rapposelli in 2017 and the trial for the death of George Floyd.
But for the debut the program has chosen to fish out one of the most significant processes of the last 30 years: that of Marta Russo – a 22-year-old student hit on 9 May 1997 by a bullet inside of of the La Sapienza Universityand for which they were condemned Giovanni Scattone and Salvatore Ferraro.
One day in the district court: the Marta Russo case
Marta Russo – law graduate – walk calmly together with her friend Jolanda in a driveway of the Campus. There are a few minutes to noon and, suddenly, the girl comes reached by a bullet to the head. He collapses to the ground and after four days in a coma she is declared dead.
The investigations are quite complicated right from the start because the girl had no enemies. Several theories are at stake: from the terrorist trail to the exchange of person, until the curious coincidence that May 9 is the date of the deaths of Aldo Moro and Peppino Impastato.
Marta Russo (ANSA)
In making the surveys, over 50, the scientific police isolate a dust particle composed of two substances (barium and antimony) considered to come, in a certain and exclusive way, from gunpowder. The trace is on the windowsill of theClassroom 6 of the Institute of Philosophy of Law.
Many people are questioned, none of them provide interesting elements. It turns out, however, that a few moments after the shot, from that room, the PhD student Maria Chiara Lipari has made a phone call.
But the girl says there was no one in room 6. And she reaffirms it despite very heavy interrogations that she describes in this way in one intercepted phone call: “This he said: they spit her, they spit her father … to intimidate you, to force you … they said” mors tua vita mea “… they said yes, but then we blame you, so say it … They told me:”Look, in the minute, more or less the minute they fired, she was in the room they fired from […] They wanted to put the anguish on me […] These until five in the morning absolutely wanted that from the subconscious, from, really, from the anus of his brain some face came to mindsome images “”.
The fact is that at a certain point that empty place, La Lipari, it makes it very populated. First by bringing up two colleagues, freed from suspicion because with two solid alibis. Then, 15 days after the crime, giving the names of before Gabriella Alletto, secretary of the institute, and Francesco Liparota, librarian; and then of Salvatore Ferraro, university assistant.
And only on August 8th (three months after the tragedy) that of Giovanni Scattone, the material author of the shot.
The trial of Scattone and Ferraro
For 13 interrogations Gabriella Alletto denies having entered the courtroom; change version with the 14th, in which he describes Scattone shooting and Ferraro putting his hands in his hair, and then leave the room with the gun hidden in Ferraro’s bag.
A revelation that comes after an interrogation recorded in a video that caused a sensation – stigmatized by the then Prime Minister Romano Prodi – and in which Alletto – accompanied by the police inspector brother-in-law – is openly threatened by the prosecutor Italo Ormanni of repercussions if he doesn’t say what he said he didn’t see.
For the two there is nothing to do, their alibi is not so iron – while in Ferraro’s bag traces of gunpowder are found.
Giovanni Scattone. (HANDLE)
The process, closely followed by the mass media, therefore opens with the charge for the two assistants of voluntary homicide aggravated by futile reasons since the two and Russo had never met. Furthermore, some witnesses claim to have heard Scattone and Ferraro speak of the theory of “perfect crime“.
Inferences that will greatly influence a process with more doubts than certainties about guilt. Who, from the beginning, are convinced that the accusations against them are a terrible judicial error.
At the end of the three levels of trial, Scattone is sentenced at 5 years and four months, Ferraro at 4 years and two months for aiding and abetting. A sentence that, after 25 years, still makes much argue.
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