Messina Denaro, Adriana Vella new public defender: «I'm not afraid»
The lawyer changes again after Calogero Montante's resignation for health reasons
Messina Denaro, Adriana Vella new public defender: «I'm not afraid».
Matteo Messina Denaro's public defender changes again, accused in Caltanissetta in the appeal trial on charges of being one of the instigators of the massacres in Capaci and via D'Amelio.
The lawyer Calogero Montante, appointed public defender of the boss last March 9, he had asked for and obtained exemption from his duties for health reasons.
Montante had already claimed at the time of the appointment that he was incompatible with the role since in the past he had been the public defender of the false repentant Vincenzo Scarantino both in Borsellino quater and on appeal.
Then, ten days ago, he also reported to the police that he had been the subject of death threats, presenting a medical certificate of illness with a prognosis of at least one month for surgery.
The Attorney General Antonino Patti he did not oppose the request and replacing the criminal lawyer in the courtroom today was the lawyer Pietro Pistone, who insisted on the request for deferral of the hearing made by the public defender.
The Court, therefore, appointed new public defender the lawyer Adriana Vella. «Messina Denaro is a defendant like any other and I will defend him as I would anyone else», said the lawyer.
«The file is very extensive - he added - and so I have to study it. I'm not afraid, if you do your job you don't have to fear anything. The only thing that scares me is the commitment that I will have to face in these days but not the fact that I am defending Messina Denaro».
The trial hearing was postponed to May 25, again in the bunker room of the Malaspina prison in Caltanissetta. Also in this case the video connection with the L'Aquila prison where Matteo Messina Denaro is detained will be reactivated. The boss, this morning too, he refused to appear.
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