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On Wednesday, Chancellor Luigi Di Maio announced on Facebook that Chico Forti, an Italian sentenced to life in prison in Florida in 2000 after a controversial trial, will be able to return to Italy, where he will end up serving his sentence. Di Maio wrote that Forti’s return will be possible because the governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, accepted a petition based on the Strasbourg Convention and presented by Forti himself requesting the transfer. Di Maio also thanked the Trump administration, and in particular the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo.
Much was made of the Chico Forti case both during the trial and in the years that followed.
Forti, a 61-year-old businessman and film producer from Trento, was arrested in 1998 for the murder of an American citizen, Dale Pike, the son of a man with whom Forti was in talks to buy a hotel in Ibiza. However, the handling of the case, both in the investigation and in the trial part, was highly controversial and controversial, with many accusing the US authorities of not having respected Forti’s rights.
– Read also: The case of Chico Forti
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