Not only the request for a presidential pardon for Mario Roggero. Following the 14-year sentence handed down to the 72-year-old jeweler from Grinzane Cavour, who ended up in prison for killing two bandits who had robbed him in 2021, the Lega party is now pushing to amend the self-defense law itself, expanding the provisions of Article 52 of the penal code, as reported by Adnkronos. Matteo Salvini's party has a bill ready that would provide for the non-punishability of "any reaction" in the immediate aftermath of an armed assault in one's home or shop, "regardless of the proportionality of the means used, the persistence of the danger, and the strictly defensive nature of the conduct."
The bill, led by Senator Claudio Borghi, would effectively exonerate those who, like the Piedmontese jeweler, acted outside their shop under circumstances deemed incompatible with the current self-defense law.
Specifically, a new paragraph would be added to Article 52 of the penal code ("a person who commits an act out of necessity to defend their own or another's right against the present danger of an unjust offense is not punishable, provided that the defensive reaction is proportionate to the offense"). The new paragraph would read: "In the event of an armed assault within one's home or one's commercial, professional or business premises, any reaction carried out in the immediate aftermath of the event by the person subjected to the assault is non-punishable, regardless of the proportionality of the means used, the persistence of the danger, and the strictly defensive nature of the conduct."
