Cospito case, forced indictment for Delmastro: the Undersecretary of Justice goes to trial

ROME. Trouble ahead for the undersecretary of justice, Andrea Delmastro, still grappling with the Cospito case. The judge of the preliminary investigations of Rome, in the context of the proceeding for disclosure of official secrecy in relation to the Cospito case, ordered the compulsory indictment. It means that the undersecretary goes to trial and will have to exculpate himself in a hearing.

The investigating judge believes that both the objective and subjective elements of the crime exist. The Rome prosecutor’s office, which will now have to formulate the indictment, had instead asked for it to be dismissed. While acknowledging the objective existence of the violation, he believed there was insufficient evidence on the subjective element, i.e. the awareness of the existence of the secret. As it will be recalled, Delmastro had informed his party colleague and roommate Giovanni Donzelli about the prison situation of the anarchist terrorist Cospito, on the eve of a heated parliamentary debate, during which Donzelli accused four members of the Democratic Party of connivance with terrorism, including former minister Andrea Orlando, for having been in prison to visit Cospito.