In the fifth ward of the Milanese prison of Bollate, the cells are open during the day and Mario Roggero walks around the area with the other inmates. The jeweler – sentenced to over fourteen years for the murder of two of his robbers and the wounding of a third – had turned himself in just a few hours earlier when he received his first visit.
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“He is well and calm, he wants to let his family know. When we hugged, at the beginning and at the end, the hug was long,” explained Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini outside the facility, after meeting the now former shopkeeper, whose legal case has been in the spotlight for days.
According to internal prison sources, shortly after entering the institution Roggero broke down in tears, perhaps a liberating gesture after so much tension. Other notable inmates serving sentences in Bollate include Alberto Genovese, the entrepreneur of the “Terrazza sentimento,” and Massimo Bossetti, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yara Gambirasio.
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The Deputy Prime Minister’s visit
“Obviously it was the first night for a man who has worked for 72 years, a husband, a father, a grandfather of eight grandchildren. It’s not easy, but we talked for more than an hour about everything: about what happened and what we hope will happen in the coming months,” the Deputy Prime Minister also explains. He discussed books, cooking, studying English, which he has now announced he wants to undertake, and the fact that even in a place like this “anyone can start over.”
The lawyer: no restless night
Roggero was also visited at the Bollate facility by his lawyer, Stefano Marcolini: “He is slowly becoming aware of all the restrictions that come with being in prison. It is not pleasant at all, but his morale is not low. No restless night.” And, the lawyer reports, one of the things that makes Mario smile the most “are the times for lunch and dinner because they are hospital hours, like lunch at 11 and dinner at 5 pm, and then there are a whole series of other rigidities. Apart from those, he is adapting.”
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