A Rome judge on Thursday indicted
three more Carabinieri officers over the cover-up regarding the
2009 police-brutality death of 31-year-old Rome surveyor Stefano
Cucchi.
Two Carabinieri, Alessio Di Bernardo and Raffaele D'Alessandro,
are serving 12-year terms after being found guilty of beating
Cucchi so badly that it led to his subsequent death in hospital
after he was picked up for a minor drugs offence.
Eight others have been convicted of involvement of the cover-up
that, for many years, concealed the true cause of his death.
The three officers indicted on Thursday, Maurizio Bertolino,
Fortunato Prospero and Giuseppe Perri, are accused of perjury in
the evidence they gave at a previous trial into the cover-up and
of involvement in the cover-up itself via the statements they
made to investigators about the case.
The trial will start on September 25.
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