Ragusa’s gup sent the former white suits, accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration together with 6 other defendants
The seven members of the crew of the Jonio Sea ship Cari to Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi and the late Pope Francis, including Luca Casarini, ex no Global who, dismissed the white suit, recycled himself as commodoro saves migrants, were indicted by the judge of the preliminary hearing of the court of Ragusa for the accusation of aiding illegal immigration. profit. The investigation had concentrated on an operation of 11 September 2020, or when the Ionian sea transferred 27 migrants on board that the Mercantile ship Maersk Etienne (5 August) recovered off the coast of Malta. Eight months later Maersk welded with this item: “Assistance services provided in international waters-September 2020”. A paid rescue, practically, according to the accusation.
At the request of indictment of the public prosecutor, he joined the state lawyer, which has been a civil party for the Ministry of the Interior. And so, the seven of the Ionian Sea will have to face the process. Starting from Pietro Marrone, commander of the ship of the Mediterranean NGO Saving Humans, and by Alessandro Metz, legal representative of the Idra Social Shipping, the company’s company’s company. And, with them, Giuseppe Caccia, vice -president of the Board of Directors of Idra and head of expedition. But the central figure of the procedure is Casarini, indicated by the investigators as the “de facto administrator” of the entire operation. To close the circle there are three crew members: the doctor Agnese Hangani, the rescuer Fabrizio Gatti and the on -board technician Geogios Apostolopoulos.
For the public prosecutor each of them would have played a role in the transport and landing of migrants on the Italian coasts in violation of the rules. And he would have done so not only consciously, but also with a direct or indirect economic return. The judge of the preliminary hearing of the Court of Ragusa, Eleonora Schininà, set the first hearing of the trial on 21 October, before the judges of the criminal college. A date that marks the transition from the investigation to the trial. The defenders claim the “Humanitarian nature” of missions and trust that the European Court of Justice offers a decisive bank.
The Prosecutor, in fact, asked for the suspension of the decision pending the assessments of the European Court of Justice On the perimeter of the rule on the aiding and abetting illegal immigration (Kinshasa case) which could have repercussions on the main charge and which is presumed to be determined by the summer. But the defensive narratives entered a direct collision with the reconstruction of the prosecutor: among good intentions and illegality the border would have been exceeded. With profit purposes. Because, according to the hypotheses of the Prosecutor, with the Maersk it would have been a commercial agreement.
The interceptions, anticipated by the truth, also reconstructed the network of relations of the grouping of Casarini, supported in the past by bishops and cardinals promoters of the reception at Go Go. And precisely Casarini, with the moral compass always episode against the government, now tries to throw it into politics: “This process will become an opportunity to ask ministers, governments and authorities, on why these people have been left in the middle of the sea. It will become a trial for the omission of rescue “. In reality, according to the accusation, the rescue was there. But with the Tassameter of the Jonio sea heated.
