Yara case, the Venice Prosecutor’s Office requests the dismissal of prosecutor Ruggeri

There Public Prosecutor’s Office of Venice the prosecutor asked for the dismissal Letizia Ruggerithe magistrate who led the investigation into the murder of Yara Gambirasio.

As reported AdnKronosthe next July 17 the investigating judge Alberto Scaramuzza will rule on the request from the prosecutor’s office of the Venetian capital to close the investigation into prosecutor Ruggeri and on the opposition presented by the lawyer Claudio Salvagni, an application that has already passed the admissibility screening. The two provisions reveal new details on what is the main evidence against Bossetti, but they also cast shadows on alleged hypotheses of hijacking the trial.

The charges against the prosecutor are linked to conservation of 54 DNA samples extracted from Yara’s clothes and containing the mixed trace of victim and executioner, moved from the hospital fridge San Raffaele to the Crime Branch office of Court of Bergamo. A move which, by interrupting the cold chain – the finds were stored at 80 degrees below zero – could have compromised the biological material. A transfer that would have been decided by prosecutor Ruggeri without waiting for the ruling from the Bergamo Court of Appeal.

Media attention on the DNA samples was reignited after Bossetti’s lawyers had the opportunity to view the findings in the Court in Bergamo on May 13th.

The investigating judge of Venice must now clarify whether the public prosecutor was aware that by moving the DNA samples he could have compromised their integrity and if his choice had the aim of misleading the investigation.

It was Bossetti himself who presented a complaint for procedural fraud and misdirection to the Venice prosecutor’s office, the one that deals with magistrates. The bricklayer of Mapellodefinitively convicted in 2018has now opposed the dismissal request.

The Deputy Prosecutor of Venice Paola Mossa claims that Letizia Ruggeri acted “correctly”. The request for dismissal mentions how in November 2018 the Bergamo carabinieri asked to indicate the destination of the finds, which will then be moved to court only on December 2, 2019to testify “no ‘anxiety of destruction’” by the public prosecutor “but only requests and measures compliant with the regulatory provisions and the authorizations received”.