Beaten to death in Cervia, immediate judgment requested for 5 young people

The Ravenna Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigation with the request for immediate trial for the five young people between 19 and 23 years old - all from Forlivese, mostly of foreign origin - accused of the murder aggravated by the trivial motives of Nicola Musiani, the 53-year-old beaten to death in the early hours of July 19th on a car park in Pinarella di Cervia, on the Ravenna coast, and died three days later in the 'Bufalini' hospital in Cesena.

The investigating judge will soon set the date for the start of the trial. For the sixth suspect - a 17-year-old also from Forlì - the other five adult suspects will be heard at the beginning of the week before the investigating judge of the Juvenile Court of Bologna - as reported by Resto del Carlino. They are all still in prison based on the elements collected by the Ravenna Investigation Carabinieri coordinated by prosecutor Angela Scorza.

As for the 17-year-old, after a few days in juvenile detention he was placed under house arrest so he could study.

According to the investigators, he had initiated the beating after two discussions with Musiani: at 11.30 pm and at 4 am, while leaving a nightclub. To give him support - continues the accusation - the other five came mostly from a Fiat Punto. Musiani had been kicked, punched, stoned, hit with a bicycle and hit with bottles. The alcohol in his system (level of 1.61) prevented him from defending himself even by raising his arms. In the end he took a few steps and went to huddle on the tire of a parked truck, where he was later found by a Radiomobile patrol. The accused would have tried, before escaping, to lynch a 50-year-old man from Cesena together with Musiani that night on the parking lot (the two lived there in different campers). The names of the suspects gradually emerged thanks to cell phones, license plate readings, testimonies and three videos recorded that night.