Viterbo – The city councilor who started the prosecutor’s investigation: “How did I get the news? I listened to the mayor and then I called my lawyer, that’s all”
by Daniele Camilli
Justice palace
Viterbo – “I expect justice to be done and the truth to be established.” Councilor Marco Bruzziches after hearing the news that the investigating judge Rita Cialoni rejected the request for immediate judgment for the mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini advanced by the prosecutors. When Frontini made the announcement, Bruzziches was also sitting among the benches of Palazzo dei Priori.
“How did I take it? I listened to Frontini – replies Bruzziches – after which I called my lawyer. That’s all. Then I saw kisses, hugs and handshakes from the majority councillors. As far as I’m concerned, I had some exchanges with some minority councilors who asked me for information.”
Prosecutors Massimiliano Siddi and Chiara Capezzuto had requested immediate judgment for the mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini on charges of threatening a political body, article 338 of the penal code. Request rejected by the investigating judge as announced in the city council by Frontini herself.
An investigation, that of the prosecutors, started from a complaint presented by Bruzziches in December. All this after a dinner at the councilor’s home, on 26 September last year, during which Cavini allegedly said: “If I want to hurt, I understand who in your family status is weaker and then I go to hit that person”. And added: “Unfortunately I am his black soul and that is why I am very hated, because sometimes I have to do very bad things.”
For Roberto Massatani, Chiara Frontini’s lawyer, “the mayor declared herself completely innocent and completely uninvolved”. For Giovanni Labate, Fabio Cavini’s lawyer, “the hypothesis of a crime does not exist”.
Viterbo – Councilor Marco Bruzziches
What do you think of the investigating judge’s decision?
“Before expressing an opinion I would like to see the papers and wait until my lawyer is also informed of the decision taken by the investigating judge, as the mayor’s lawyers were. Otherwise I would have to comment on a statement made by Chiara Frontini.”
So how do you comment on the mayor’s statement?
“I can tell you that it doesn’t change a thing. The judges will then decide.”
Did you expect the investigating judge’s decision?
“I learned about the investigating judge’s decision, as well as the request for immediate judgment made by the prosecutors, from the press. So, let’s make the judiciary work. And in this perspective I only expect justice to be done and the truth to be established.”
Viterbo – The mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini
Were you in the city council when the mayor broke the news of the investigating judge’s decision?
“Yes, I was in the council.”
How did you experience it?
“I listened to Frontini’s announcement, after which I called my lawyer. That’s all”.
Did any of the city councilors comment with you on the news given by the mayor?
“I saw kisses, hugs and handshakes from the majority councillors. Then, as far as I’m concerned, I had some exchanges with some minority councilors who asked me for information.”
Daniele Camilli
– Chiara Frontini: “The investigating judge decided to reject the request for immediate trial”
Presumption of innocence
In the Italian criminal system the presumption of innocence applies until the final sentence. Presumption of innocence which is based on article 27 of the Italian constitution according to which a person “is not considered guilty until finally convicted”.
May 4, 2024
Bruzziches – Frontini … The articles
- “Reinforced” accusations for the mayor Frontini and her husband Cavini: threats extended to the entire collegiate body
- Frontini and Cavini towards the preliminary hearing, the defenses: “Finally we will read the papers”
- Bruzziches’ lawyer: “Cavini-Frontini case, the investigating judge’s decision does not move the situation an inch”
- “The investigating judge decided to reject the request for immediate trial”
- Maria Rita De Alexandris: “If Frontini and Cavini go to trial, I won’t vote for civil action”
- “If Frontini and Cavini go to trial, the majority also has the duty to ask for the municipality to be a civil party”
- “Cavini-Frontini case, the municipality should constitute a civil party”
- Lawyer Labate: “Cavini has no exact memory of what was said at dinner with Bruzziches”
- Emanuele Aronne: “Fabio Cavini said some bad things and plays the boss, but it doesn’t count for anything… I even argued with him”
- Cavini-Frontini, the investigating judge’s decision on the immediate trial for the mayor and her husband is imminent
- Mayor Chiara Frontini reiterates from Portugal that she has no intention of resigning…
- Bruzziches’ lawyer: “Frontini actively participated in the dinner and in the speeches that were made”
- Umberto Di Fusco: “I can’t express myself until a tombstone is placed on this whole affair”
- Marco Bruzziches: “When Chiara Frontini speaks in the council I get up and leave, she is no longer credible… resign”
- Frontini Council: Sgarbi convicted, investigated several times and sent to trial – Mayor investigated for a very serious crime
- The mayor’s lawyer: “The accusation is very serious, but Chiara Frontini is innocent”
- “If the mayor Chiara Frontini goes to trial, the city council must become a civil party…”
- Threats to councilor Bruzziches, the mayor ends up on Repubblica again
- “It’s time for mayor Frontini to resign”
- Threat to a political body, immediate judgment requested for the mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini
- Threat to a political body, investigations into the mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini concluded
- Cavini political consultant of the majority, Chiara Frontini: “We have discussed his involvement outside the council…”
- But isn’t it the case that the mayor Chiara Frontini resigns?
- “Fabio Cavini was the political consultant of the majority and all the councilors saw him as the “solver””
- Lawyer Stefano Falcioni: “If the hypothesis of a crime against Frontini and Cavini is ascertained, a dark side would emerge in the management of the majority”
- Chiara Frontini’s lawyer: “The mayor declared herself completely innocent and completely unrelated to the charges”
- The lawyer Giovanni Labate: “The Bruzziches affair, the accusation against Frontini and Cavini is a threat to a political body…”
- “A short while ago I went to the prosecutor’s office in relation to the complaint from councilor Bruzziches”
- Ugo Poggi: “Fabio Cavini? He’s just the mayor’s husband”… “Have I asked for Sgarbi to be sent to trial? I’m worried about my own problems”
- “No mayor has ever managed to discredit the city like Chiara Frontini…”
- Andrea Vannini: “Mayor, send your spouse into exile in Tuscany with the obligation of residence…”
- “Mayor Frontini has lost all credibility, she should resign”
- Andrea Micci: “Mayor Frontini, if she has any dignity, should resign” and the opposition is working on a motion of no confidence
- “We have the right to know what serious facts led to the break with councilor Bruzziches”
- “Since that evening my family members have suffered, anguish and disturbance and more than one should be ashamed of this”
- Alfonso Antoniozzi: “If the mayor were convicted, I would resign”
- “I am Chiara… Chiara is the mayor of the city and in the evening she goes to sleep peacefully, with a clear conscience”
- Vittorio Sgarbi: “I am a councilor without portfolio and without identity”
- Dinner at Bruzziches house, Micci (Lega): “Mayor Frontini resigns…”
- Dinner at the home of councilor Bruzziches, the “statements” of mayor Frontini’s husband end up in Repubblica
- Between heautontimorumenos and batracomiomachia, 10 questions that the mayor Frontini should answer
- Stefano Falcioni: “Bruzziches recorded the evening because he was suspicious of Chiara Frontini’s insistence on having dinner”
- Bruzziches case, mayor Chiara Frontini and her husband Fabio Cavini under investigation
- Maria Rita De Alexandris: “If anyone wants to undermine the stability of the majority, know that we are more united than before”
- “I said everything I had to say in the statement”, Chiara Frontini does not respond…
- Marco Bruzziches: “Frontini didn’t apologize to me for Cavini’s words. There are important developments regarding the whole affair…”
- “We will hit the weakest in the family”… the sentences of Mayor Frontini’s husband also end up on Dagospia
- Patrizia Notaristefano: “Bruzziches set a trap for Cavini and Frontini”
- Paolo Moricoli: “Cavini is Tuscan… and Tuscans often say things over the top”
- Letizia Chiatti: “Bruzziches is a very strong person, I don’t know how many would have had his courage”
- “Who, at a dinner, in a friendly environment, doesn’t indulge in hyperbole and jokes?”
- “The mayor should report immediately, Viterbo and the people of Viterbo are better than all this”
- “A very serious event that has never occurred in the city, if confirmed…”
- “Bruzziches’ statements are serious, the mayor should report to the council”
- “A “disturbing” way of administering, Chiara Frontini should immediately report to the council”
- “Bruzziches affair, mayor Frontini should report it immediately”
- “If I want to hurt, I understand who in your family status is weaker and then I go to hit that person”
- The prosecutor’s office hears other people about the “serious facts” suffered by Bruzziches
- Letizia Chiatti heard by the prosecutor’s office on the “serious facts” suffered by Bruzziches
- More than one audio recording delivered to the prosecutor’s office on the “serious facts” suffered by Marco Bruzziches and his family
- Marco Bruzziches heard from the prosecutor’s office for the “serious facts” suffered by the family and reported to the city council
- Marco Bruzziches: “Chiara Frontini has disappointed me, I wouldn’t vote for her again and there are many people who complain because they don’t see a better city”
- “It is the darkest day of the Frontini administration”
- “I am leaving due to inaction, inconclusiveness and serious events suffered by me and my family”
- Earthquake in the majority, Marco Bruzziches moves to the opposition
