Nordio opens procedure for pardon for jeweler who killed robbers

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 16 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has opened the procedure for Mario Roggero, a jeweler whose prison term of 14 years and nine months for shooting dead two fleeing robbers and wounding a third after a heist at his shop in 2021 was upheld by the supreme court on Wednesday, making the verdict definitive, to be granted a pardon, sources said on Thursday. The ruling sparked widespread dismay and the parliamentary whips of the ruling majority's parties had launched a petition c...

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