Fabrizio Corona: Not Socially Dangerous, Says Prosecutor

Fabrizio Corona is not socially dangerous and should not be subjected to special surveillance. This was the request made to the Milan judges by prosecutor Giovanna Cavalleri during the hearing discussing the renewal and aggravation of the preventive measure proposed by the Police for the former photo agent, who last September finished serving his final sentences, after about 10 years. Since May 2022, the prosecutor explained in court, there have been no "significant episodes of social danger" from the former king of the paparazzi, even though he has various proceedings still ongoing. Among these are a preliminary hearing for bankruptcy, a trial starting tomorrow for attempted extortion, and others for defamation, including those related to names brought up in the case of football betting and also one resulting from complaints filed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and FdI member Manlio Messina. "I have started a news outlet (Dillingernews.it, ed) of which I am the editorial director - Corona explained to the judges - and so the complaints come, if then Meloni gets angry...". However, those proceedings, according to the prosecutor, do not prove that he is a danger to the community and the various "violations", when he was on probation in the last period, were "excesses". The prosecutor's intervention focused on the positive judgments expressed by the Surveillance (judges La Rocca-Anedda and two experts) in the declaration of sentence extinction. The judges in the decree filed yesterday speak of a "global appreciation" of his path and an "adherence not merely formal to the rules of good conduct". Cavalleri referred to that order in which it is also read that Corona in his path of treatment from drug addiction and psychological has improved "significantly" both as an "introspective process" and as a "psychological change, despite the complexity of his personality functioning". On the same line, of course, was the lawyer Ivano Chiesa, while the Police had requested that the special surveillance for a year and 6 months - which was applied to him in May 2012 and until he was arrested in January 2013 for the execution of the final sentences - start from scratch and with the aggravation of the obligation to stay and to sign twice a week. "We are not talking about a dangerous criminal going around shooting - the lawyer pointed out - he is made this way and with treatments over the years he has improved, all his misadventures, then, are linked only to the years 2007-2008". The judges of the Prevention Measures Section (panel chaired by Maria Gaetana Rispoli) will decide in the coming days. Meanwhile, the former photo agent, who recently turned 50, looks to the future: "If it goes well, I will be able to have my passport back, I will go to the USA and become famous, how I do not know, but I will become famous".