Judge Fioretta: "The families of origin of the adopted children fit into a deconstructed and polygamous cultural context". Marco Griffini, his wife Irene Bertuzzi and their daughter Valentina have not committed irregularities. Appeal of adoptive parents who had reported them: illegitimate proceeding due to lack of notification to the offended parties, the investigation must be reopened
The investigation against the president of Aibi, Marco Griffini, 71, his wife Irene Bertuzzi, 69, and their daughter Valentina, 36, has been closed. Thus decided the judge for the preliminary investigations of the Court of Milan, Sofia Fioretta: according to the magistrate the facts reported are not criminally relevant and the elements gathered during the investigations are not suitable and sufficient to support the prosecution in court. Consequently, the investigating magistrate writes at the end of the thirty-one pages of the decree's motivation, in compliance with what is also requested by the district anti-mafia prosecutor, "the proceeding must be filed due to the groundlessness of the crime report".
The leaders of the "Aibi - Amici dei bambini" association in San Giuliano Milanese were investigated in 2017 for alleged serious crimes in the procedures for adoption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the then anti-mafia prosecutor, Ilda Boccassini, who had inherited the file against unknown persons. opened by the Rome Public Prosecutor and then transferred to Milan for territorial jurisdiction. The adoptive parents of various regions of Italy, who first reported the alleged irregularities to the Commission for international adoptions, filed an appeal: they claim that the provision of judge Fioretta is illegitimate since the hearing in the chamber convened on March 1st , due to lack of notification of the criminal proceedings to all the offended parties, and therefore request that the investigation be reopened.
The request for filing had been filed at the beginning of 2018 by the same Milanese anti-mafia prosecutor, still directed by Ilda Boccassini, after the magistrate Fioretta had denied authorization for wiretapping, claiming, unlike the public prosecution, the lack of sufficient evidence of crime . At that point, deprived of the fundamental instrument of interceptions, the Public Prosecutor's Office had declared the impossibility of continuing the investigations. The request for archiving has always been opposed by the adoptive parents who asked and still ask the State to investigate what happened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2014 and 2016: a period in which five adopted Italian children have disappeared into thin air through the association of Marco Griffini, from Italian couples whose surnames they already carried. Children who were in an orphanage in Goma, in the East of the African country, and were waiting to leave for Italy.
Of all the facts reported by over forty adoptive families and gathered in a long statement by the Commission for international adoptions, then entrusted by the government to the magistrate Silvia Della Monica, the judge Fioretta has now established the total criminal extraneousness of Marco Griffini, of his wife Irene Bertuzzi, CEO of Aibi and their daughter, Valentina Griffini, head of operations in Africa.