Quirinale, Mattarella adopts three pardon measures

The recipients

The Quirinale, for privacy reasons, only releases one name of the three recipients of the measure. The first individual clemency decree was adopted in favor of A. A., born in 1972, sentenced to a total of seven years' imprisonment for crimes involving drugs and other crimes. In granting pardon for the remaining sentence to be served (five years, five months and ten days), the President of the Republic, explains the press release, took into account the favorable opinions of both competent judicial authorities and the very serious and irreversible health conditions of the condemned person, due to which the deferral of the execution of the sentence was ordered some time ago.

The other two pardon decrees, the Quirinale press release further explains, concerned Guido Gianni, born in 1960, sentenced to twelve years and four months of imprisonment for the crimes of double murder and attempted murder, committed in 2008, as part of an attempted robbery of which he was the victim inside his own jewelery shop. The Head of State granted partial pardon, which extinguished three years and two months of imprisonment, taking into account the favorable opinion expressed by the supervisory magistrate and in consideration of the period of sentence already served (five years and three months). As a result of the partial pardon, the person concerned will have to serve a residual prison sentence of less than four years, thus allowing the competent supervisory court to apply the institution of probationary assignment to social services (article 47 of the penitentiary system).

The other measure concerned G. B., born in 1981, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for drug-related crimes committed between 2002 and 2009. In granting the partial pardon - which extinguished one year and nine months of the prison sentence still to be served - the Head of State took into account the favorable opinion of the supervisory magistrate, who acknowledged the change in the convict's life, which has already begun and consolidated a path of social, work and family reintegration, and of the health conditions of one of his younger daughters. Also in this case, following the act of clemency, the residual sentence to be served falls within the limit that allows for the possible granting of the alternative measure of probation.