Giuseppe Gulotta

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Giuseppe Gulotta (* 1957 ) was a prominent justice victim and spent 22 years in prison. The Italian national had been wrongly convicted of the murder of two Carabinieri , which went down in history as the Alcamo Marina massacre. It was only on February 13, 2012 that Gulotta was legally acquitted of all allegations.

On January 27, 1976, the Carabinieri Carmine Apuzzo and Salvatore Falcetta were shot in their barracks in their sleep. As the Vatican correspondent Andreas Englisch explained in the ZDF program Markus Lanz on February 14, 2013, the Carabinieri are said to have unsuspectingly stopped a truck with a secret delivery of weapons for the Gladio paramilitary unit during a nightly traffic control . Thereupon they were murdered as unwanted confidants by a special command. In the interest of a quick search success, the then 18-year-old bricklayer apprentice Giuseppe Gulotta was convicted as perpetrators together with three other men named Gaetano Santangelo, Vincenzo Ferrantelli and Giuseppe Vesco. Gulotta, who had been tortured for the crime, received a life sentence.

It was not until 2007 that an investigator confessed to having obtained Gulotta's confession through torture. Gulotta herself told Markus Lanz that she had been beaten and mock executed for a whole night. On January 26, 2012, the Attorney General sought Giuseppe Gulotta's acquittal on all counts in the Reggio Calabria Court of Appeal. The request was granted in the context of the revision on February 13, 2012.

Journalist Andreas Englisch at Markus Lanz: “I feel bad about the case myself because the media - and so do I! - failed in that case. So that he [Gulotta] had been set up, everyone in Italy knew that, that was perfectly clear. Only, we have simply done too little about it. "

In January 2013 Giuseppe Gulotta sued the Italian state for 69 million euros in damages.

Web links

• Gladio's long arm and the admission of a BILD reporter
• Assolto dopo 22 anni: Giuseppe Gulotta chiede 69 mln allo Stato

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Video Markus Lanz from February 14, 2013  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on March 14, 2013. (offline)