Secretary of the Italian party Più Europa (+Europe), Benedetto Della Vedova, recently sent a letter about the Markiv case to the President of the newly created European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders. It concerns the trial of first instance in Pavia, Italy, which sentenced Ukrainian soldier Vitaliy Markiv (who also has Italian citizenship) to 24 years for alleged complicity in the killing of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrei Mironov on May 24, 2014 near Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast.
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People attend a rally to demand freedom for Vitaliy Markiv in front of the ministry of foreign affairs in Kyiv on Oct. 14, 2019. Markiv was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Italy for involvement in the 2014 death of Italian freelance photographer Andrea Rocchelli during Russia’s war in Donbas.
