In prison for defending himself from thieves. Putortì’s lawyers: “astonished”

The lawyers Giulia Dieni And Maurizio Condipoderowho are in charge of Francesco Putortì’s defense, speak for the first time and do so to the microphones of StrettoWeb in a long interview in which they express all their dismay for the validation of their client’s arrest in prisonthe butcher who would be guilty – according to the accusation fully supported by the investigating judge – of having defended himself from thieves in his own home.

The case is causing a big sensation, in Reggio Calabria and beyond. The community of Oliveto has started a fundraiser and tomorrow evening will take to the streets, in the hamlet on the hills of the city, to express its solidarity towards this good person, with a totally clean criminal record, who has been confined in the Arghillà prison for seven days after last Monday he defended himself from thieves who broke into his home and even attacked him.

“No, Italian law absolutely does not provide that those who defend themselves from thieves end up in prison” the lawyers immediately clarify, specifying that “obviously there is an issue of proportion, it’s not that if you see a thief from a distance you shoot him with a bazooka making him ashes . That is not allowed, but this is not the case. Here we are shocked by the judge’s choice, who fully embraced the prosecutor’s thesis. Francesco is even accused of voluntary homicide, as if he had left home and deliberately killed the first person he met. And this thesis, totally imaginative, is confirmed by the feared risk of repeating the crime. It is totally ignored that everything starts from a robbery, that there are two thieves who first break into private property, then attack the owner who rightly defends himself as best he can, with a banal kitchen knife. What was he supposed to do, let himself be killed? And no, he couldn’t even escape. Where was he supposed to go? The accomplices were outside, in the only possible escape route. The law on self-defense guarantees reactions of this type, absolutely proportionate to the type of theft and attack received. Francesco was afraid, he said it immediately, he made a noise just to be heard, he just wanted to scare away the thieves who however attacked him and at that point he struggled with the knife with the sole objective of defending himself, in an instinctive way, among other things. He never chased them, he never hit them from behind, it all happened in a few seconds in a scuffle in a very small environment. Instead the judge wrote that Putortì was the aggressor, he overturned the truth, even during the hearing he showed a lot of acrimony. We trust in the Court of Freedom, at least so that Mr. Putortì is released from prison and then the trial will clarify…” they explain in the interview Dieni And Shared property.

The lawyers also reconstructed, quickly and rudimentarily, “as far as we can“, the criminal path of the gang of thieves from Catania”who had carried out at least three other robberies in Oliveto and the area. They all have numerous precedents and are part of Catania criminal organizations: why hasn’t Justice thought about the risks that Putortì and his family could take as revenge on the part of this criminal organization? No one thought of a form of protection for the family, they only concentrated on the hypothesis that he would have committed voluntary murder and even attempted voluntary murder, and instead we don’t even know if the thieves are under investigation. Investigate the thieves, try to reconstruct why they went there, if they knew that the weapons were there – which Francesco regularly held, having the total trust of the State – and therefore what use those weapons would have been to him. Instead of targeting the victim of the robbery, Mr. Putortì, let’s dig in to hit the criminals, the delinquents, the enemies of the State, protecting good people like Francesco and his family. Also because there hasn’t even been an autopsy on the dead thief yet, so we can’t correlate the death to the fight. There are many possible hypotheses, we will fight to obtain justice“.