Petition for release of jeweler who killed robbers rejected

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 22 - A Turin judge on Wednesday rejected a petition for Mario Roggero, a 72-year-old Italian jeweler sentenced to 14 years and nine months in prison for shooting dead two robbers and wounding a third as they fled after a heist at his store in 2021, to be released from Milan's Bollate Prison. Judge Elena Massucco said the defence had not presented factors showing circumstances of necessity for her to authorize the release, although the request is now set to be referred to ot...

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