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Three Carabinieri indicted over Cucchi killing cover-up

Officers face charges of perjury, throwing probe off track

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - 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. (ANSA).
   

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