Massimo Carlotto
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June 22, 1957 Padua, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | 1995–current |
| Genre | Crime fiction, noir, hardboiled, thriller |
| Literary movement | New Italian Epic |
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Massimo Carlotto (born July 22, 1957) is an Italian writer and playwright.
Carlotto was at the center of one of the most controversial legal cases of Italian contemporary history.
In 1976, a student of twenty-five years, Margherita Magello, was found dead at his home, killed by 59 stab wounds.
Massimo Carlotto, a student of nineteen years and activist of Lotta Continua, accidentally discovers the victim, bleeding and dying, and instead of notifying the police, frightened, he flees. He is then arrested and charged with homicide. He claimed ever his innocence.
In the first trial, he was acquitted for lack of evidence by the Criminal Court of Padua but was sentenced to 18 years in imprisonment by the Court Call the Venice, and the sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1982. He then fled, first in France and to Mexico, but after three years on the run he was captured by Mexican police and sent back to Italy. A large people movement substained Carlotto in this case; for example signed a petitions for him Ettore Gallo, Jorge Amado, Nilde Iotti, Norberto Bobbio, Giandomenico Pisapia and Ferdinando Imposimato.
In 1989 the Supreme Court orders retrial and returns players to the Court of Appeal of Venice, for know if Carlotto had to be acquitted in accordance with the old or the new penal code; in 1990 raises the question of constitutional legitimacy: the decision of the Italian Constitutional Court arrives in 1991, but the President of Court is retired, which requires a second trial during which Carlotto (suffering by a serious metabolic disease) was sentenced to 16 years in prison, and it's violated, according Carlotto's lawyers, the principle of double jeopardy/ne bis in idem.
Public opinion takes Carlotto's party, and in 1993 the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro grant him the pardon.
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