Italia sentenced for failure to treat n'drangheta boss Pelle
For Strasbourg, the absence of adequate treatment for paraplegia is inhuman and degrading treatment. From the ECHR also a no to the Gucci sisters' appeal
The absence of adequate care for the n'drangheta boss Francesco Pelle, the man also known as 'Ciccio Pakistan', has therefore suffered inhuman and degrading treatment. The European Court of Human Rights has thus condemned Italia for violation of Article 3 of the ECHR.
Francesco Pelle, sentenced to life imprisonment definitively as the instigator of the Christmas massacre of 24 December 2006 in which Maria Strangio, the wife of the opposing ringleader, was killed, according to the documentation received by the ECHR, needs constant physiotherapy, because he suffers fromparaplegia of the lower limbs, and is confined to awheelchair after being injured in an ambush on 31 July 2006 in Africo.
Physiotherapy required
In the judgement, which will be final if the parties do not request and obtain a review of the case by the Grand Chamber of the Cedu, the judges state that after November 2022, and despite numerous medical reports indicating the need for continuous physiotherapy, the applicant did not receive any. "The Court considers that this is sufficient to conclude that Francesco Pelle did not receive adequate medical care while in detention" and that "therefore the treatment to which he was subjected exceeded the unavoidable level of suffering inherent in detention and constituted inhuman and degrading treatment".
No action is taken on the Gucci sisters' appeal
The Strasbourg judges, on the other hand, decided on the same day to strike out the appeal of the sisters Allegra and Alessandra Gucci concerning their conviction to comply with a asset agreement entered into by their parents at the time of their divorce, without taking into account the fact that their mother had in the meantime been found responsible for commissioning the murder of their father.
In their appeal, the two sisters argued that their rights torespect for family and private life, their right to private property as well as their right to a equal trial had been violated due to the decision of inadmissibility of their case in the Court of Cassation, which they considered to be vitiated by excessive formalism. The ECHR decided not to proceed, giving weight to an agreement between the Gucci sisters and their mother in execution of which the former paid their mother a sum significantly lower than that owed to them by waiving all other claims and actions, judicial or extrajudicial. The Court therefore considers no longer relevant the breaches suffered and the action now devoid of purpose.
