The assessment on Mesina’s state of health begins in Milan

(ANSA) – MILAN, APRIL 29 – With a view of about an hour, the assessment ordered by the Surveillance Court on the state of health of Graziano Mesina, the former Scarlet Pimpernel of Supramonte now 82 years old, began today in Milan. prison in Opera to atone for a 24-year sentence for criminal conspiracy aimed at drug trafficking. This morning, the neurologists Stefano Zago, professor at the University of Milan, and Lorenzo Lorusso, director of the department at the Merate hospital, went to the clinical center of the Milanese penitentiary where the elderly man is detained, the two experts appointed a dozen of days ago by the judges following a new request for release requested by the defence: the lawyers Beatrice Goddi and Maria Luisa Vernier, based on their consultancy, believe that their client presents “a neuro-cognitive and neuropsychiatric decline, which could be the of a problem of senile dementia”. The outcome of the report is expected in a few months and, if it were to confirm the clinical picture hypothesized by the lawyers, Mesina could serve his sentence in the Orgosolo (Nuoro) home of his family, who in recent days have expressed their willingness to welcome him. In March 2023 the Surveillance Court of Sassari rejected a first request for house detention made by the two lawyers due to the precarious conditions of ‘Grazianeddu’, this is the nickname of him, who entered the limelight as an exponent of post-war Sardinian banditry. In 2004 he was released from Voghera prison after obtaining a pardon, but in 2013 he was arrested again. (HANDLE).