“Prosecution in favor” –

After endless pillorying and forced surrender, Giovanni Toti could soon be free. The Genoa Public Prosecutor’s Office has provided the investigating judge Paola Faggioni with opinions on the requests for revocation of house arrest presented by the lawyer of the former president of the Liguria Region and by those of the port entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli. The opinion regarding the request for Toti, according to leaks, is in favor of release; for the latter, however, the no should be confirmed. But the prosecutors are currently maintaining maximum confidentiality. A ruling by the investigating judge as early as tomorrow is not excluded.

The lawyer of the former governor of Liguria, Stefano Savi, had filed on Monday 29 June the request to revoke the house arrest for the former president of the Region. The request arrived after almost three months under house arrest and was delivered via certified email. After the governor’s resignation, Savi underlined, “our request is based on the fact that there are no longer the conditions to maintain custody”. Toti’s step back, which came in a climate of tension and pressure so much so that even the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, had commented on the matter as follows: “I am perplexed when a precautionary measure is applied after several years of investigation and especially when it is ‘à petits paquets’, that is, with subsequent measures at a short distance from each other”.