L'Unione Sarda, Feb. 13 2003

http://www.unionesarda.it/unione/2003/13-02-03/CAGLIARI/CAG03/A03.html

The case of 1987
According to the prosecutor, the suspect asked the boy 100 milions
(51,650.00 euros)

A seemingly unexplicable suicide: when Roberto jumped out of his bedroom window, at the 5th floor of via Castiglione, he wasn't 20 yet.

It was Feb. 18th, 1997. Four months later his parents filed a complaint: their son committed suicide - they claim - because he was exasperated by the continuous requests of money of his cousin, with whom Roberto shared the passion for Scientology.

Yesterday morning, Gup (preliminary hearing judge) Giovanni Lavena indicted Giorgio Carta, 30 from Cagliari, with the charge of extortion. According to the deputy prosecutor Guido Pani, the defendant (represented by lawyers Luigi Concas and Guido Manca Bitti) demanded [Roberto] almost 100 millions, threatening [him] to reveal the confidences Roberto made during the meetings with Scientology members. As for the other two indicted, Annamaria Cogoni, 44 from Selargius and Massimiliano Longu, 30 from Cagliari (represented by lawyer Pasquale Ramazzotti), the judge ordered the files to be transferred to the prosecutor in order to have the charges specified.

Cogoni and Longu (both members of Scientology) are charged with abetting: they'd helped Carta to evade the investigation, making disappear Roberto's 8 "uditing", i.e. the Scientology files of the young boy who committed suicide.

This last circumstance surfaced in a second time, from there the need to reformulate the charges. Now the trial splits into two stumps:

infact Carta will be tried May 2nd next by the judges of the Court first section, while the other two, if indicted, will be tried by the monocratic court and the two proceedings could not be joined again.

According to Roberto's parents (who sued for damages in the criminal prosecution, with lawyers Mario Canessa and Mariano Delogu) everything started with the boy's Scientology enrolling, of which he was happy at first. Then something happened. Roberto confided his father and mother to be pressed by his cousin Giorgio Carta (he too a follower of the "Mission of the Church of Scientology") with demands of money. By the way: two days ago a magazine related to Scientology and speaking of this investigation in a cryptic way was handed out for free in front of the Palace of Justice. After Roberto's death, some of his friends confirmed that the boy had been threatened: for any reason he had not to talk of the money handed to his cousin.

After gathering a sheer dossier, Roberto's family asked the power of attorney to reopen the investigation about their son's death. The charge of suicide instigation dropped, while remains the one for extortion.

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Note:

Following the previous media reports of Roberto's story (http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm ), the local CoS representative wrote "L'Unione Sarda" and "La Nuova Sardegna" two long letters (http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p3 and http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p5) claiming that Scn in a religion and not speculators, that the local org is unrelated to the proceedings and connecting the two means religious intolerance and discrimination.

Moreover, in late 2002 a web site containing "disturbing news" about Roberto's family, their lawyers, judge and prosecutor appeared on the web http://web.tiscali.it/esti_ora/index.html . As you can imagine, the proceedings are the usual conspiracy against the poor "cult" of Scientology and of course, Martini (the undersigned) and "Allarme Scientology" (my web site http://xenu.com-it.net) are part of the conspiracy, as already stated by the reliable source "Tell it All Org"

(http://www.tellitall.org/Leprove/scenes.html ).

Martini

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