Piero Marrazzo, the riflemen sentenced to film him at a transsexual prostitute: sentences of 6 to 10 years

The four riflemen were sentenced involved in the 2009 case involving the former president of the Lazio region as a victim, Piero Marrazzo, filmed while he was in the company of a transbadual prostitute. The Court has imposed Nicola Testini and Carlo Tagliente for 10 years. For their two other colleagues, Luciano Simeone and Antonio Tamburrino, the sentence was set at 6 years and 6 months and 3 years. Charges prescribed for trans Natali. Challenged, in various ways, extortion, robbery, violation of the law on drugs and theft of stolen property.

The prosecutor had requested a 12-year prison sentence for Testini and net, and respectively 9 and 4 years for Simeone and Tamburrino. The facts go back to July 2009, when the accused entered the apartment of via gradoli where they found and immortalized in a video the president of the time, Marrazzo, in shirt and underwear, with Natali, then, according to the accusation, the video was used to make him sing.

According to the reconstruction of the Attorney General of Testini, Simeone and Tagliente threatened the journalist to reveal what he had seen in the trans house. they asked three checks for a total of 20,000 euros, in exchange for the silence. There was also an attempt to sell the video, so much so that Marrazzo was warned by Silvio Berlusconi of the existence of compromising images that had attracted the attention of Alfonso Signorini. The director of who he realized that it was unpublishable images because they violated the private life, but he still warned his publisher Marina Berlusconi. The defendants have always denied that the video was shot for blackmail. They even defended themselves by making sure that they only serve to document police operation.

"Piero Marrazzo has waited nine years for this decision to be welcomed," says the lawyer. Luca Petrucci – The conviction fully recognizes the guilt of the accused who, by dishonoring their uniform, were responsible for vile abuse and blackmail blackmail. Even now, a man of the institutions, a public service journalist and, above all, a respectable citizen, Piero Marrazzo wishes to reiterate his high regard in the Carabinieri army, which is the main victim of the crimes committed by this group. handle of "bad apples" ".