OfEnrico Pruner, Matteo Riberto, Marzia Zamattio
Chico Forti in Trento for a lunch with his 96 year old mother and other family members. The visit lasted four hours, then the return to the Verona prison. Greeted by the applause of the people waiting for him under the house. Uncle: «Mum is perky with happiness at seeing him again»
A hug awaited for 16 years: Chico Forti met his mother in Trento. A wish that the former television producer he had expressed as soon as he set foot in Italy again, and which became reality thanks to a permit granted to him leave prison temporarily of Verona to have lunch at the woman’s house. A large group of people were waiting for him, who applauded him as soon as he appeared under the house, at 3pm today, May 22nd. After four hours, as expected, the 64-year-old extradited last Saturday from the United States to finish serving his sentence for murder, he left again to return to the Verona prison. «How did the meeting go? Well, thanks», his response to the reporters who remained outside waiting for him.
«After so many tears now joy»
«He has four hours for this meeting thanks to a special permit», said Gianni, Chico Forti’s uncle, who participated in the family meeting which brought together around a table – in addition to the former television producer – him and the his partner, and Chico Forti’s mother and brother. «The mother, however, is very perky with the joy of seeing her son again. We cried a lot and suffered a lot and now it’s right to rejoice a little, which is in fact precisely in the spirit of Chico, always ironic. Who lasts 24 years in prison? A hero, I say that I would have died after a week.” «There are those who have done it controversy over the costs borne by the State for Chico’s return flight from the United States – he continued – They say 160 thousand euros, what even the last municipality in Trentino spends to put on a village festival”.
The criticism of the prison police was allowed
The announcement that Chico Forti had obtained the OK to visit his elderly mother was the Fratelli d’Italia parliamentarian Andrea Di Giuseppe who has always followed the case of the former television producer «Chico had met his mother for the last time telling her they would never see each other again: this woman has resisted until today only to hug her son again”, Di Giuseppe said when announcing that Forti’s request of a permit to see her mother in her home in Trento had been accepted. In record time. And this speed was not at all liked by the SPP, the prison police union, which spoke of “bitterness and confusion”. «The ruling of the supervisory magistrates it was quicker than other similar situations that had been pending for some time», underlined the secretary Aldo Di Giacomo. And he explains: «The same measure adopted for Forti requires weeks of waiting and not a few seconds as well as concerning particularly serious cases such as the risk of life of the relative to be met, an eventuality which is not valid for Forti».
The conviction of Chico Forti
It was 2000 when Chico Forti was placed in a Florida state prison in You love me in a federal facility. The sentence of life imprisonment for having killed, in Miami, the Australian citizen Dale Pike, found murdered on 15 February 1998 on Sewer Beach. The Italian manufacturer, in the USA to make his fortune, is however always proclaimed innocent and over the past years there are numerous illustrious Italians who have put their faces forward asking the government for diplomatic intervention regarding Chico Forti’s situation: from Fiorello to Jovanotti, up to Red Ronnie, the Zoo 105 team and Andrea Bocelli. Several foreign ministers such as Luigi Di Maio and Marta Cartabia have dedicated themselves to his cause.
Permission to see his mother in Trento
The turning point comes in May, from Miami the OK for Chico Forti’s transfer to Italy who lands at Pratica di Mare airport on Saturday 18 May: he is also there to welcome him Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. After a night spent in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, Forti was then transferred to the Verona prison: here he immediately applied for a permit, so that he could go and meet his elderly mother who had been waiting to see him for 16 years. The approval arrives in record time and Forti can once again embrace the woman who has been waiting for him for all these years.
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May 22, 2024 (modified May 22, 2024 | 7:31 pm)
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