Global InformationGiuliano Mignini information
Public Minister Giuliano Mignini | |
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| Born | 13 April 1950[1] Perugia, Umbria, Italy[1] |
| Education | Law degree |
| Alma mater | University of Perugia |
| Occupation | Public prosecutor |
| Years active | 1979–2020 |
| Known for | Monster of Florence Murder of Meredith Kercher |
| Children | Four daughters[2] |
Giuliano Mignini (born April 13, 1950)[3] is an Italian magistrate. He retired as a public prosecutor in Perugia, Umbria, in 2020.[4]
He is known for his involvement as the prosecutor in the investigation of the death of Dr. Francesco Narducci, who was found dead in the Trasimeno lake in 1985. Mignini opened an investigation into his death as a cold case in October 2001, as he suspected he could be the victim of a murder. He was soon joined by prosecutors from the Florence jurisdiction who were also investigating on the deceased doctor, as they believed Narducci was involved in the Monster of Florence serial murders case. Mignini's investigation resulted in the prosecution of 20 individuals over the following years, on allegations indirectly connected to Narducci's death such as cover-up and side-tracking charges. In 2010 all 20 individuals had their charges dropped by a Preliminary Caourt, mostly due to the expiration of limitation statute terms. The courts however, determined that Narducci had died by strangling and not by drowning as previously declared, and that a cover-up had in fact taken place, which included a staging of the finding of the body at the lake by using the body of an unknown.[5][6] Mignini was convicted of abuse of office in 2008 together with police officer Michele Giuttari in a case connected to the Narducci investigations. Mignini and Giuttari were both acquitted on appeal in 2014.
Mignini came to wider public attention as one of the two prosecutors who led the 2007 investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher, and the subsequent prosecution of Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The conviction of Knox and Sollecito was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court of Cassation on March 27, 2015. The verdict pointed out that as scientific evidence was "central" to the case, there were "glaring defalliances" or "amnesia" and "culpable omissions of investigation activities".
Mignini was a Consultant at the Italian Parliament Anti-Mafia Committee in 2022, which issued a 120-page report on the Monster of Florence, Narducci and connected cases.[7][8] The Parliamentary inquiry stated again the conclusion that Narducci's body had been temporarily exchanged before burial in order to cover up his murder.[9]
- ^ a b "Sentenza n. 321/2010 del Tribunale di Firenze, Seconda Sezione Penale" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- ^ Burleigh 2011, p. 155.
- ^ Burleigh 2011, pp. 153–154.
- ^ Maiorca, Umberto (5 June 2020). "L'INTERVISTA - Giuliano Mignini, una vita in toga alla ricerca della verità: "Ho sempre cercato l'imparzialità"". Perugia Today. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ Milan Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Guerriero P., Caccialanza P. (27 October 2014). Sentence 7498/14, proceedings 3829/2014. Milan. p. 5,19.
Since January 21th 2005 the Public Prosecutor of the Republic Mr. Giuliano Mignini presented the Preliminary Judge of Perugia with a request to proceed through an incidente probatorio procedure at hearing the testimony of twenty one persons (because of the old age of some of them, because of the precarious health conditions of others, and because some other had been victims of threats), within proceedings n. 8970/2002 RGNR, pending against numerous individuals for an extremely large series of crimes (criminal association, cover-up of individual, vilipendium of cadaver, destruction, suppression or removal of cadaver, illegitimate use of cadaver, falsehood in public records also by inducing public officers to commit error, omission of official papers, threat in order to induce to commit a crime, threat against a public officer, revelation of secret documents also by instigation, obstructing justice by accusing an innocent, interruption of public service, suppression of various documents, abuse of office, usurpation of public functions, failure to denounce a crime by public officer, material cover-up, falsehood committed by private citizen in public records) all related to the finding in the Trasimeno lake, on October 13th 1985, of a cadaver that was recognized as that of Francesco Narducci." ... "(...) based on the proceedings it was found that the autopsy report on the body which was eventually ordered, and the anthropometric comparison between the cadaver examined at Pavia University and the one photographed on the dock at the Trasimeno lake, in fact did ascertain that Narducci had been murdered, either through strangling or throttling
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Sul mostro di Firenze l'ombra della massoneria deviata". ilGiornale.it (in Italian). 3 November 2022. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
(..)Il quadro non fa che allargarsi a dismisura e, nonostante per quanto riguarda l'omicidio di Narducci a livello giudiziario tutto si sia risolto in un'ordinanza non impugnabile di archiviazione (nonostante il Gip di Perugia De Robertis abbia appurato per certo lo scambio di cadavere e il suo coinvolgimento nei delitti del mostro di Firenze).
- ^ Commissione d'Inchiesta Parlamentare sul fenomeno delle Mafie. "Doc. 23, n° 37, Sez.9" (PDF). ilmostrodifirenze.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2022.
- ^ "Rossella Corazzin, scomparsa a 17 anni nel 1975: "È stata uccisa, coinvolto il mostro di Firenze"". Fanpage (in Italian). 26 October 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ Fiorentino, Redazione Corriere (20 September 2022). "Mostro di Firenze, le rivelazioni del killer del Circeo Angelo Izzo: una messinscena per la fuga dell'assassino". Corriere Fiorentino (in Italian). Retrieved 3 December 2022.