Massacre of Erba, Azouz Marzouk convicted of libel against the Castagna brothers

Azouz Marzouk, the father of little Youssef and the husband of Raffaella Castagna, two of the four victims of the massacre in Erba, in the province of Como, was sentenced to two and a half years for aggravated defamation against the two former brothers-in-law, Beppe and Pietro Castagna. According to the Como judge Veronica Dal Pozzo, who doubled the prosecutor’s request (one year and three months), Azouz Marzouk allegedly engaged in defamatory conduct “of extreme gravity”, and his insinuations allegedly “stoked the innocent current” on the massacre which took place on 11 December 2006, denigrating the offended parties “already overwhelmed for the first time by the atrocious murder of their family members, and overwhelmed again by the impressive media resonance of the unfounded accusations against them”.

Beppe and Pietro Castagna had filed a complaint after, in an article published on a website in February 2019, Azouz Marzouk had declared: «Investigate the family: my son Youssef knew the killer, someone close to my wife killed him. You only need to read the papers to understand that someone wanted my wife’s inheritance».

According to the judge, the man was referring to the families of the victims, and the “special disvalue” of his behavior takes the form “in the awareness of the falsity of the allegations aimed at them”. «Not only that the accusation came from their own brother-in-law, but also and above all that it was inserted into the flow of an innocentist and revisionist current of the process, resulting in a real disinformation campaign, made up of sibylline allusions and blatant denigrations, brutally damaging to the reputation of the Castagna brothers».

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Source: Vanity Fair

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