FOGGIA – The prosecutor accuses twenty-year-olds Antonio Raffaele Palladino, Luigi Cognetti and Matteo Gesualdo of attempted murder and robbery for the brutal beating of a North African which took place in front of a bar in Piazza Mercato, with a new aggravating circumstance, that of having been acted by 5 people. in the nightlife area on the evening of 24 June 2023. Noureddine Ennil, 39 years old, was drinking a drink when he was beaten, robbed of his silver bracelet and hat, kicked even when he was helpless on the ground: sequences filmed with a mobile phone and filmed ended up on the web. The 3 adults were arrested, with the same fate for 2 alleged minor accomplices, on 27 July by the flying squad on precautionary orders in prison; in November they obtained house arrest, which was then revoked for Palladino for violating the obligations imposed.
The three with no criminal record are accused of attempted murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives, “represented by the sole desire to abuse the offended person and affirm their criminal fame, as well as using torture such as spitting on the victim and extinguishing a cigarette on his side while he lay helpless in Earth”; and of robbery for having stolen a silver necklace and the hat from Ennil, who was initially hospitalized with a guarded prognosis. The trial is celebrated with an abbreviated rite in front of the preliminary hearing judge Michela Valente. During the hearing, the prosecutor accused the defendants of the additional aggravating factor of the “number of people participating in the crime”, which is triggered when 5 or more subjects are involved. Given the modification of the charge, the lawyers. Vincenzo Paglia (for Palladino), Raul Pellegrini (assisting Gesualdo) and Michela Scopece (cognetti’s defender) asked the judge to send the documents back to the prosecutor so that he could reformulate the new charge. The judge rejected the exception, as it is already clear from the original complaint that five of them acted. As mentioned, 2 minors were also involved in the investigation, sentenced in the first instance last January to 10 years each by the investigating judge of the Juvenile Court of Bari. After the addition of the charge, the defense reiterated the choice of abbreviated procedure; hearing postponed to June for indictment, speeches and sentence. The defense is aiming for acquittal from the robbery and the reduction of the crime of attempted murder to injury: in case of conviction, sentences reduced by one third provided for by the summary. When questioned by the investigating judge the day after the arrests, Palladino availed himself of the right not to answer; Cognetti said that he had had a marginal role and that he had intervened in the first phase solely to defend a friend, one of the two minors; Gesualdo claimed to have defended his minor friend who was attacked and then left.
The accusation against the alleged members of the pack is based on videos recorded by cameras in the Movida area contained in 69 frames. “The episode is characterized by brutal violence” wrote the investigating judge in the precautionary order against the 3 adults; he spoke of “unjustified ferocity, evident contempt for the most elementary values of orderly human coexistence, hateful criminal unscrupulousness; terrifying ways of blatant behavior; arrogance of attitudes; primitive instinct of oppression; randomness of the choice of the victim. What happened goes beyond the level of street crime to reach the threshold of paramafia delinquency.” The prosecution also disputes the attempted murder on the basis of the testimonies of 2 doctors from the hospitals of Foggia and San Giovanni Rotondo who treated the patient: when asked if his life was in danger, the answers were: “objectively yes”; and “yes, since he arrived in a reserved prognosis with multiple laceral-contusive foci of the brain”.
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