FLORENCE. The protest lasted four days, thirty meters high. Leonardo Morettia 61-year-old originally from Turin and resident in Umbria, who climbed onto the crane of a construction site set up next to the Palace of Justice in Florence for the construction of a new building, got off this morning, interrupting the protest staged for alleged judicial wrongs and against the delays in a case judicial proceedings which have seen him involved, according to what has been stated, for around thirty years.
“I’m not giving up,” he repeated in recent days, reassuring the police, health workers and firefighters who “monitored” his action. Of your own free will and with the assistance of the firefighters, this morning you left the crane on top of which you had “camped”. His aim was to draw attention to his court case, which he revealed on Saturday morning – the day after climbing the crane – by shouting into a megaphone and asking to speak to the magistrates. A protest staged already two years ago when the man, to protest against the conduct of some magistrates, had camped with a tent in front of the Court of Perugia to contest an eviction he had suffered, repeated in recent days in Florence to protest against a prison sentence his burden – from what he has declared on several occasions – which according to him was unfairly imposed on him by the Court of Perugia.
The 61-year-old was sentenced to five years for extortion. A sentence that became final “without his knowledge”, when he was “abroad for work” and “had no chance to defend himself”. Hence the protest against the judges who sentenced him, which he reported to the Florence prosecutor’s office last December, but without obtaining any results. Twice the pm Christine Von Borries spoke to the man who decided to end the protest today.
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