Mario Roggero's defense has also filed a motion with the Milan Supervisory Court to request a deferral of the jeweler's sentence, pending the outcome of the clemency petition already submitted by his wife. As learned, after finding out that the case documents had been transferred from Turin to Milan, the lawyer sent a certified email to the Milan magistrates the previous evening, reiterating the request for a sentence deferral. Today, the Milan Supervisory Office returned the documents to Turin, ruling that jurisdiction remains with the Piedmontese capital since the motion had been filed when the 72-year-old was still a free man.
Meanwhile, this morning the jewelry store owned by Roggero, located in the Gallo di Grinzane Cavour area (Cuneo), reopened. "Yesterday I saw my husband, we managed to spend three hours together. Given the circumstances of prison, he is doing well. I will only say that it is absurd that a 72-year-old man, who has worked his whole life, should have to go through something like this. We have been here since 1980, this is not normal. I feel like I am living in a bad, very bad dream. But I hope that very soon he will be able to come back here — he absolutely should not be in prison," said the jeweler's wife, Mariangela Sandrone, who reopened the shop with one of their daughters.
"For us," the woman added, "a new chapter of our lives is beginning, a very sad and painful chapter, because we have been through very bad experiences. You have to live through these things to understand them, and I wish no one ever has to. In a civilised society, you cannot live this way: there must be different rules, we citizens, we shopkeepers, must have protection. There is so much talk about the Wild West, but the Wild West is now, out there," she stated. "What happened here was absolutely not that. I will go back to visit my husband in prison as soon as I can, work permitting."
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