Mendella case, the officer persecuted for years by judges and prosecutors. Now the absolution –

One other instance of dangerous justice. The odyssey of Colonel Fabio Massimo Mendella, an officer of the Guardia di Finanza, started in June 2014 when prosecutors Henry John Woodcock and Vincenzo Piscitelli challenged him on alleged bribes to tame controls. «In actuality – says Mennella – it wasn’t very clear even to the Prosecutor’s Workplace what the domestication consisted of. First they stated I had had a bland investigation finished, when it turned out that it wasn’t bland in any respect, they modified their line and stated it was gradual. Ultimately it was understood that it was neither gradual nor light they usually needed to acquit me.”

As Il Giornale reviews, the truth is, Mennella needed to wait ten years to see the sunshine once more, when the Court docket of Enchantment of Naples issued the ultimate acquittal. In between years of jail and a household {and professional} life utterly destroyed. Mennella’s braveness and honesty are additionally confirmed by the truth that, proper in entrance of the judges of the enchantment court docket, the officer waived the statute of limitations. Then once more, the acquittal sentence demolishes his solely accuser, an entrepreneur who continued to commit crimes till he was arrested in Turin. By no means earlier than has it been extra pressing to speed up the difficulty of separating the careers of judges and prosecutors.