Ruling coalition starts working for release of jeweler who killed robbers

The parties of Premier Giorgia

Meloni's ruling coalition on Thursday started a campaign for the

release of Mario Roggero, a jeweler whose prison term of 14

years and nine months for killing two robbers and wounding a

third after a heist at his shop in 2021 was upheld by the

supreme court on Wednesday, making the verdict definitive.

The parliamentary whips of the ruling majority's parties

launched a petition calling on the justice ministry to request a

presidential pardon for Roggero.

Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, a senior member of Meloni's

right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, said via X that "every

possibility should be explored" to enable Roggero to return

home, arguing the verdict was "unjust, incomprehensible, and

difficult to accept".

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