Hannoun remains in prison, the Supreme Court decides

He will still remain in Terni prison, where he has been imprisoned for months, after his arrest on December 27th. The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of Mohammad Hannoun, activist and president of the Palestinian Association in Italy, arrested last December 27 on charges of terrorism for having financed Hamas through a network of charities.

It is the second time that the Roman judges have ruled on the topic of the precautionary measure. For the first time, last April, they accepted some of the arguments of the defenders of those arrested, sending the documents back to the Genoa Review Court for a new evaluation.

The position of the Review itself, however, has always remained the same: Hannoun and the other suspects must remain in prison. And so the new appeal was launched, discussed during the day by Hannoun's lawyers (Dario Rossi and Fabio Sommovigo). This time, however, the verdict was a failure.

Same fate for Raed Dawoud, another of those investigated by the Prosecutor's Office and Digos, responsible for the Milanese branch of the association.

The final decision on the precautionary requirement came a few days after the closure of the Prosecutor's investigation into Hannoun himself and five others: the prosecutor Luca Monteverde and the deputy Marco Zocco, together with the prosecutor Nicola Piacente, accuse them of having collected 18 million euros in 25 years for Hamas, "masking" them through donations to charities.

To arrive at such a dispute, the investigators relied on interceptions, computer data and contents which, however, at least in part, had been rejected by the Supreme Court itself. Starting from the use of open sources. Then there is the topic of "Avi", i.e. the Israeli secret agent who brought to the Digos and the Prosecutor's Office a considerable amount of elements used in the investigation. In this case it was the Review that established its non-usability, even before the matter ended up in the Court of Cassation. The Prosecutor's Office, however, asked Israel, via letter rogatory, to be able to hear Avi.