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Only the last bureaucratic details are missing, but soon Enrico “Chico” Forti will return to Italy from the United States, where he has been serving a life sentence for twenty years for a “murder in the execution of another crime”. He will be “close to his family”, stressed Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, whose diplomatic activity had intensified in recent weeks. Forti, however, will not be free. The Strasbourg Convention, accepted by the State of Florida, provides for the possibility for the offender to serve his sentence in his own country. It will be up to the Italian judiciary to decide on the eventual release from prison; the first move could be arrests …
Only the last bureaucratic details are missing, but soon Enrico “Chico” Forti will return to Italy from the United States, where he has been serving a life sentence for twenty years “murder in the execution of another crime”. He will be “close to his family”, stressed Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, whose diplomatic activity had intensified in recent weeks. Forti, however, will not be free. The Strasbourg Convention, accepted by the State of Florida, provides for the possibility for the offender to serve his sentence in his own country. It will be there Italian judiciary to decide the eventual Released from prison; the first movement could be that of house arrest.
Last proportion: the thank you of the President of the Republic. Chico Forti – 61 years old, native of Trento, former windsurfing champion and TV entrepreneur – yes, he always is proclaimed innocent And with him, not only his family – his parents, his American wife and three children – have been fighting for years, but several associations, television broadcasts, individuals and parties.
According to the Miami court, he was the kill Dale Pike, 40 years old, Australian, found dead in Sewer Beach in 98. Dale was the son of Anthony Pike, the owner of the Ibiza hotel of the same name that Forti wanted to buy. The thesis of the American investigators was that the crime was the result of a scam that the Italian tried against Pike about the purchase of the hotel in the Balearic Islands. Forti, who claims to be the scammer, had gone to pick up his friend at the Miami airport shortly before. Has always denied of taking the Australian to Sewer Beach and shooting him after a fight. The two headshots were fired by a .22 caliber, the same type of weapon that Chico had purchased a few days earlier with his friend Thomas Knott. But the weapon was never found. A surfer noticed the Naked body pike on the beach and raised the alarm.
Forti was almost immediately questioned as a witness. As a motive, he spoke of a homosexual murder. There is no objective evidence that Chico is the culprit, but the popular jury believed the murderer with the motive of the scam. Defect of some contradictions and retractions of our compatriot during his testimonies: in a call to his wife, about the time he had left Dale at the hotel, about why his phone had hung up the cell phone in Sewer Beach at the presumed time of the crime. .
The sentence of life in prison without parole it was pronounced on June 15, 2000. Attempts to reopen the trial were futile: the US criminal procedure provided for an appeal only against new evidence so far unknown. Thus, for 20 years and 6 months, the man had been languishing in a state prison in maximum security.
The step forward for the transfer of Chico to Italy is due to governor of FloridaRon DeSantis, 42, Harvard law graduate, Navy lieutenant and later military attorney, in office for a year. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also been very busy, Di Maio said. The news of the return was received in a partisan way with great satisfaction. On Tuesday night, Matteo Salvini appeared at Porta a Porta wearing a T-shirt praising the release of Forti. For now it’s a comeback. We still have to wait for freedom.
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