Minetti case, lawyers: her criminal record in the adoption

Checks to be carried out as soon as possible, and going to the source, to establish whether the requirements to grant pardon to Nicole Minetti are concrete and well-founded, or backtrack and overturn the opinion with the bitter observation that perhaps the re-educative function of punishment has malfunctioned. The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Francesca Nanni, is pressing the accelerator with a series of checks abroad. In the crosshairs of Interpol, delegated by Deputy Public Prosecutor Gaetano Brusa, there are some nodal points that led the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, to sign the act of clemency for the former Lombardy regional councillor, considering the reasons of 'humanity' prevailing and on which clouds have been gathering for a few days.

The investigations concern first of all the truthfulness of the sentence, produced in the files by the lawyers, of adoption of the sick child abandoned in an institute by the biological parents, issued by the judge in Maldonado in February 2023 and implemented by the Juvenile Court of Venice. Then there is also the need to check again the criminal record of the 41-year-old woman, who made the headlines for her evenings in Arcore: they want to ascertain that she does not have open proceedings either in Uruguay, where with her partner Giuseppe Cipriani - for whom she worked as a pr in his luxury clubs - she lived for a long time, or in Spain, since she spent some time as a DJ in Ibiza.

But the crucial question is whether he has really taken a "radical distance from the past" with a "serious and concrete desire for social redemption", words used by the public prosecutor Brusa in his non-binding observations, transmitted to via Arenula from where they were ferried to the Quirinale, without anyone raising any objections. If this does not turn out to be the case and from the investigations, which are not true criminal investigations, a picture emerges that takes us back to Minetti's 'previous' life - definitively sentenced to 2 years and 10 months for exploitation of prostitution in the Ruby case and to 1 year and 1 month for the Lombardy Rimborsopoli - the Attorney General's Office could review its opinion of 9 January and consider the former showgirl not deserving of a pardon

Nicole Minetti's lawyers have forwarded to the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office the entire judicial and administrative documentation, "in order to allow a precise verification from a direct and official source of the relevant passages relating to the adoption procedure and the assumptions represented in the pardon proceedings", also in the light of certain media reconstructions that - the lawyers stress - "have provided a false representation, not adhering to the documents and seriously damaging". They also indicated 'all the consultations carried out in Italy and abroad with the medical documentation of the visits. Of each profile there is punctual confirmation in the documentation sent to the Attorney General's Office,' the lawyers claim, 'in a spirit of full cooperation, for any appropriate evaluation'. A complex affair that took place between hospitals and medical consultations such as those, as the lawyers explained this morning in the Attorney General's Office, which took place at San Raffaele and Padua, but of which there would be no trace in the databases. And this is because, it is explained, the 'official' procedure would not have been followed, but they would have turned directly to trusted professionals for medical advice. A reconstruction on which, after the shadows and doubts raised, they want to see clearly in order to possibly, never before in history, take a step backwards by revoking the act of clemency, but all quickly.

And it was precisely Minetti's lawyers Emanuele Fisicaro and Antonella Calcaterra who, in a note issued on Saturday 2 May, announced that 'the Italian criminal proceedings of Nicole Minetti have been transparently represented in the overall adoption procedure' with reference, they claim, to 'the umpteenth inferences and inaccuracies circulating in recent hours'.