Has passed beyond four hundred days In the maximum security prison to Panama To then be put to house arrestfinally it was acquitted and judged innocent at the trial at first instance, but for the moment will not be able to return to Italy. For Stefano Conti, Italian trader forty years originally from Cesano Madernocountry of Brianzalooks like a endless nightmare: «I had to return to court to ask that they let me go back to embrace my loved ones and they denied me the right but they denied me because the prosecutor he presented appealthey want to redo the process », explains in a video Stefano, acquitted of the accusations of it is human beings for sexual purposes In Panama.
They could have inflicted on him, and maybe he still risks, thirty years of jail.
Arrested the August 15, 2022Conti has spent 423 days in prison The joyàknown for the state of total abandonment in which the prisoners live. Conti had denounced the situation by talking about overcrowded cells, poor hygiene, presence of parasites And frequent violence. To tell it was he himself in the video message of these hours: “I have been living in Panama for seven yearsthree years ago I was arrested for human trafficking. Last month I was acquitted with full formulaI did 423 days of prison prison as innocent in one of the worst galleys of the worldwithout water to drink or to wash: inhuman conditions», He says.
The forty -year -old, who in the past had reported having also contracted the scabies In that institute, he then obtained house arrest in the November 2023.
At the trial the alleged victims portrayed their accusations and would have claimed to have suffered pressure and threats by the public prosecutor to testify against accounts. After the acquittal everything seemed to have resolved, so much so that Conti had started the bureaucratic procedures necessary for his Return to Italybut then theYet another twist of the Panamense judiciary.
“It is time for those who to duty to take charge of the problem,” say his legal defenders Valter Biscotti And Vincenzo Randazzo. “The Panamense court has decided that our compatriot will not be able to return to Italy until appeal process. All this is unacceptablewe want his to become a international case Of obvious injusticeall the competent authorities are activated as soon as possible », add the lawyers.