Chico Forti will return to Italy, Di Maio announced. For twenty years he has been in the United States for murder – Corriere.it

I have great news to give you: Chico Forti He will return to Italy. I have just communicated this to the family and I have informed the President of the Republic and the President of the Council. The governor of the Florida in fact, he accepted Chico’s request to avail himself of the benefits provided by the Strasbourg Convention and to be transferred to Italy. The minister announces it Luigi Di Maio on Facebook.

Enrico Chico Forti, 61 years old, originally from Trento and several times Italian champion of windsurfing, was involved in the late 1990s in a dark history of common crime: on February 15, 1998 they had found him dead on a beach not far from Miami, in Florida, a U.S. citizen, Give him pike. The Italian citizen was arrested for that murder, then sentenced tolife sentence in 2000. The motive for the crime that Forti has always declared completely unrelated to, would be in a attempted scam: Pike’s father and the Italian were in talks to buy a hotel in Ibiza. Calls for the release of the former windsurfer and for the review of the trial have so far fallen on deaf ears. Strong, according to Strasbourg ConventionHe will return to Italy as a prisoner and here he will continue serving his sentence except for pronouncements by the Italian judiciary.

This is an extremely important result, which rewards long and patient political and diplomatic work. We have never forgotten Chico Forti, who will finally be able to return to his country close to his loved ones – added Minister Di Maio -. I am personally grateful to him Governor DeSantis and the Federal Administration of the United States. A special thanks to the Secretary of State Mike pompeo, with whom I personally followed the story and with whom I spoke again during the weekend, for the friendship and collaboration he provided to achieve this very important result. The Government will now follow the next steps to speed up as much as possible the arrival of Chico. He had been waiting for this moment for twenty years and we are happy for him, for his loved ones, for his family, for the entire city of Trento. a moving moment for us too.