The date for the new commemoration will be 17 June, commemorating the day in 1983 when the journalist and popular television presenter was arrested on extremely serious charges – membership of a Camorra-style organisation and international drug trafficking – from which he was subsequently fully acquitted after a gruelling legal ordeal

Chamber of Deputies gives the go-ahead for Enzo Tortora Day and a day to commemorate victims of miscarriages of justice

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