Giuseppe Uva died almost two years ago. The blog was one of the first to talk about him in November 2009, months before the news found space in the newspapers …
On 9 June there’ll finally be the first hearing in the trial.
The Blog has gone back to listen to Lucia Uva, Giuseppe’s sister, to hear about the telephone conversations she came to hear about only recently.

Extract of the telephone conversations on the night of 13 June::
Operator 118: "118..."
Alberto Bigioggero: "Hello, good evening, my name is Bigioggero. Can I have an ambulance here at the barracks in Via Saffi? At the barracks of the Carabinieri?"
Operator 118: "Yes. What’s happening?"
Alberto Bigioggero: "Basically, they are beating up a young man..."

Operator 118: "Carabinieri? OK, greetings, it’s118, they asked me for an ambulance, I don’t know a gentleman telephoned and asked me to send an ambulance there to you, can you confirm?"
Switchboard of the barracks: "No, but sorry, who was it that called?"
Operator 118: "A gentleman, he said that they are beating up a young man and he wanted an ambulance..."
Switchboard of the barracks : "No, there are two drunks here at the barracks, now they are taking their mobile phones from them. If we need you, we’ll call you."

Switchboard of the barracks : "118?"
Operator 118: "Yes, can I help? ..."
Switchboard of the barracks : "I need an ambulance here at the Carabinieri barracks in Varese as I have to do a TSO (trattamento sanitario obbligatorio) {Obligatory Treatment in Hospital} ….".
Operator 118: "You have to do a TSO at the barracks of the Carabinieri?"
Switchboard of the barracks: "Yes."
Operator 118: "What’s happened?"
Swichboard of the barracks : "It’s a really violent, really agitated man who is threatening … "
Operator 118: "But is it that one who is in drunken state?"
Switchboard of the barracks: "Yes, his name is Uva… "

Lucia Uva, Giuseppe’s sister:
“The magistrates have kept these recordings for two years in their file. I went to ask for them precisely in January. In the first few days of January, because my other lawyers said they weren’t necessary. With the lawyer avvocato Fabio Anselmo I requested them and after that they placed them in the hands of my lawyer. I listened to them for so many whole nights and I can say that it is a shameful thing: not just the anger to hear this stuff, I wondered “how is it that the Magistrate in these two years did not think it valid to listen to both the recording of 118 and Bigioggero, that I think it is very important, because they are called an hour earlier and they arrive after an hour that they were called back by the Carabinieri.” I don’t understand why they didn’t evaluate these telephone calls, these are not questions that I continually ask myself but I would like him to give me the explanations.
Every night I am getting big ideas about everything that happened that night. My idea is that my brother inside those barracks must have really been in a bad way together with all those men.
Nothing frightens me anymore and I am not angry – because anyone seeing me perhaps thinks I’m angry – no I am disgusted!
Who do they want to take for a ride? For years they’ve been taking people for a ride. Those other police officers already did that 7 years ago with Aldrovandi, the same identical thing. I will never forget that recording that night when that police officer said that: “Federico jumped into the police car and snarled”, instead my brother "was possessed". So? Who are they trying to hoodwink? And then who is it that falls down the stairs, who falls and hits his head against the bars, who is it that hits his head … well have you finished taking the piss out of us? Enough! Enough! They massacred my brother. I want to know why they massacred him!”