Francesco Lo Voi (Lapresse)
Francesco Lo You is the new chief prosecutor of Rome. He was nominated by a large majority – with 19 votes in favor – by the plenum of the CSM. Two votes went to the attorney general of Florence Marcello Viola, those of the toga councilors Matteo’s And Bold; two other abstentions. From 2014 to today Lo Voi has led the prosecutor of Palermo.
His latest public release from PROSECUTOR head of Palermo was on Monday afternoon, at the Rectorate of Palermo, when he participated in the conference on ‘Mafia and anti-mafia’, organized by the President of the Regional Anti-Mafia Commission at Ars Claudio Fava. And even on that occasion he remained silent. “I’m not saying anything about the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office, we’re waiting for the CSM …”, he had limited himself to saying to Adnkronos, as he smoked a cigarette in the cloister of Palazzo Steri. And today that appointment has arrived. Francesco Lo Voi is the new Chief Prosecutor of Rome
Francesco Lo Voi, hunting fugitives at Open Arms, who is the new chief prosecutor of Rome
Who is Francesco Lo You? Surprisingly appointed as the Chief Prosecutor of Palermo in December 2014, he had beaten two weighty ‘competitors’, such as the then PROSECUTOR of Caltanissetta Sergio Lari and the then PROSECUTOR of Messina, Guido Lo Forte. Who had appealed to the Tar. That time Lo Voi had obtained the votes, as well as the current of the Independent Judiciary, of which he belongs, also the laity of Forza Italia Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, today President of the Senate, in addition to that of the independent magistrate advisor Claudio Galoppi, therefore of its current. He had also gained the preferences of the center-right advisers and the laity of the Democratic Party. Having entered the judiciary in May 1981, Francesco Lo Voi began his career as a magistrate in Sanluri (Cagliari). In 1984 he was judge in Caltanissetta, then praetor in Palermo where he became a substitute in 1990 PROSECUTOR and in 1997 Deputy Attorney General at the Court of Appeal. He has been part of the DDA since its inception, he has worked with Giovanni Falcone and with Paolo Borsellino and he carried out the investigations and supported the accusation in numerous and serious mafia trials, particularly the one against the Salvo brothers, the Capaci massacre, Leoluca Bagarella and Giovanni Brusca. Since 1997 he has carried out the functions of Deputy Prosecutor General, continuing to deal with mafia trials on appeal. Among these debates against the perpetrators and principals of the murder of Father Giuseppe Puglisi, the anti-mafia parish priest killed in September 1993 by Cosa Nostra.
Francesco Lo You he was appointed Secretary General of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and contact point of the European Judicial Network, since its establishment, where he worked on international judicial cooperation procedures. From 2002 to 2006 he was councilor of the CSM: to then return to Palermo as a substitute pg. In 2007 he became a substitute Prosecutor general in the Supreme Court, a role he held until January 2010, when he was appointed to represent Italy at Eurojust, on the recommendation of the then Minister Angelino Alfano. Here he has carried out numerous consultations on judicial cooperation between the various European states, has dealt with international drug trafficking, human trafficking, child pornography networks and large cases of organized crime, which involved Cosa Nostra, Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta , tax fraud, international corruption, computer piracy. Lo Voi represents the accusation in the trial against the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, accused of kidnapping and refusal of official documents for the affair Open Arms. He was present for the preliminary hearings, but in the last hearing which was held last Friday, he did not come. The day before Salvini had said: “The Prosecutor Lo Voi who, in the courtroom in Palermo supported the accusation in the Open Arms trial, was promoted to the Chief Prosecutor of Rome but there is certainly no connection. It is a well-deserved professional path and those who say the opposite lie knowing they are lying “.
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