Turin court voices dismay over attacks on judges after Roggero verdict

The president of Turin's appeals court on Friday voiced dismay over attacks from right-wing quarters on the Turin appeals judges who handed down a 14 year nine month jail term in 2025 to Mario Roggero, a jeweler who shot dead two fleeing robbers outside his shop near Cuneo in 2021 - a sentence that became definitive when it was upheld by the supreme court Wednesday. "Dismay and extreme concern over the very serious defamatory campaign unfolding on social media following the Supreme Court of Cassation's ruling upholding the conviction handed down against Mario Roggero by the Turin Court of Assizes on December 3, 2025, partially reversing the ruling of the Asti Court of Assizes of December 4, 2023," read a statement by the President of the Turin Court of Appeal, Alessandra Bassi, "also on be