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Yet More Collateral Damage? Sollecito’s Sister Seems To Have Lost Her Police Job
Posted by Jools
[Above left: Vanessa Sollecito attends her brother’s trial on November 20]
This thing seems to roar on like a tsunami. The Sollecito family were already getting hit by the wave.
This below is a translation of an interview which Vanessa Sollecito and her father gave to Il Messagero during a break in the court proceedings last Friday.
Ex-Carabinieri-Lieutenant Vanessa seems to have been bugged while seeking a political favor for brother Raff.
*Raffaele’s sister discloses: “I have lost my job as carabiniere because of my surname.”
“I do not make statements about the characters in the sequence of the process, and also as an ex-officer of the Carabinieri, I remain in my heart a policewoman, and I stick to the facts,” says Vanessa Sollecito, Raffaele Sollecito’s sister, during a pause in the long and detailed indictment of Giuliano Mignini, to our questions on her reaction to the words of the magistrate.
Messagero: Why EX carabinieri, Lieutenant Vanessa Sollecito?
“The surname was inconvenient, I was told by the Force, and I was forcibly discharged.” She says bitterly.
Messagero: Only for having the same name as in one person on trial accused? Was it not enough to have a suspension pending developments or eventually a conviction as happened in cases apparently more severe with direct involvement by members of the Force?
“One of the complexities against me came from an intercepted wiretap in which I was talking to a politician who according to my superiors I was trying to entrust the fate of my brother Raffaele with in the proceedings. But it will be enough to listen carefully to the recordings, I only spoke about a member of his family that I had as a student, never, never about Raffaele.”
“We do not speak of interceptions,” said Dr. Francesco Sollecito inserting himself (during daughters questions by the journalist) and sitting next to his wife Mara who took notes on a little notepad during Mignini’s indictment.
Messagero: Uncomfortable topic, the interceptions, Dr. Sollecito?
“Four months of interceptions have been made public making of us a family from the underworld ready to do anything to save Raphael.”
Messagero: What you say of Mignini’s (indictment) intervention?
“The prosecutor has impressed and amazed me that artfully from everything that came out in the debating stage they take only and exclusively what suits them and revise some positions such as that of Kokomani considered unreliable by Judge Micheli’s preliminary hearing and today is the object of some revaluation.”
Messagero: Any other observations
“About the window of opportunity, what is there to say? Entire tirade of simulation were done by the “˜friendly lawyer from Maori’s office’ as defined by Mignini, I just wish the mister pm would listen to Rudy’s (computer) chat.
Messagero: How you think Raffaele is during the hearing?
“I have had no opportunity to speak to him then I don’t know if he calm, I guess he is anxious like all of us.”
Posted by Jools on 11/23/09 at 05:05 PM •
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