The lawyer Taormina and the seized town of Cogne: “Too much pain in that story. Let’s forget it”

“This is a story that has caused me too much pain, too much pain. That’s why I don’t like to talk about it, don’t let me add anything else.” Lawyer Carlo Taormina I would like to consider the story that has linked him to Annamaria Franzoni for years as a closed chapter, in a relationship that has seen him move from being by her side, to a defense attorney when she was accused of killing her son Samuele, a counterpart in the classroom . of justice for unpaid packages. Yesterday, a new episode of the dispute that has lasted for more than ten years, saw him assign a partial victory by the judge: the villa in Cogne where little Samuele was killed in 2002 will go up for auction, only to be returned. In fact, the Aosta judge did not accept the request of the Lorenzi spouses (assisted by the lawyers Maria Rindinella and Lorenza Parenti) to block the real estate foreclosure procedure, giving the go-ahead to the seizure by Taormina. “I didn’t even want the news to come out – says the lawyer desperately – I prefer not to talk about it anymore: I don’t even care, that’s why I don’t comment in any way.

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Gone are the days when Taormina loudly proclaimed the innocence of her former client. She had understood that he would sponsor her for free. And she certainly didn’t expect to receive a request for payment to defend her until part of the second grade, which was close to a million euros. An exorbitant figure that was considered, in fact, too high even by the judge who had remodeled it at 275 thousand euros. However, now they have risen to 450 thousand, between interest and appreciation, in the foreclosure deed.

Annamaria Franzoni has always remained very attached to that house in the Montroz hamlet that Italians have come to know well from the amount of investigations and inspections carried out during the investigations and the trial. So much so that she returned several times: brief visits, time to make some arrangements to fix the garden or restore the color to the walls, after her newfound freedom once she served her 16-year prison sentence. But neither she nor her husband thought of selling it. In fact, in 2009, they created an endowment fund around her and based on this they asked the judge to block the foreclosure of her house by the lawyer. But the judge of Aosta made a reasoning in which she sewed the intention of the fund with that of the legal assistance received at the time from Taormina to demonstrate that both had the same purpose, linked to the “needs of the family.” The constitution of the fund, carried out by Stefano Lorenzi as, at that time, the guardian of his wife who was banned after the criminal conviction, is linked to the trial of Franzoni who, due to his condition, could not meet the material and moral needs of the family. But linked to the needs of the family, according to the judge, is also the debt contracted by Annamaria Franzoni with Taormina for the defensive activity, since it is functional to obtain the possibility that she returns to her loved ones as soon as possible. And if the debt has these characteristics, the fund cannot be a reason for opposition.

At this point, the sale of the property can be ordered, even if a judgment on the merits is pending, again in Aosta, which the judge has invited to settle before October 30. “The house can go to auction because the process with this decision has not been suspended – commented Giorgio Taormina, who assists his father in the process – but if the other party intends to go ahead with the fund, the case will certainly continue.” on appeal “.