This is the judge for preliminary investigations Maria Francesca Mariano. The decision came after an institutional meeting of the Prefecture’s Order and Security Committee.

The escort was assigned to a judge of the Lecce court, after the threats received in recent days. This is the judge for preliminary investigations Maria Francesca Mariano . It was decided to assign the escort to magistrate Mariano, serving at the investigating judge/gup office of the Lecce court, after an institutional meeting of the Prefecture’s Order and Security Committee.

And regarding death threats , the content of which is being examined by the relevant authorities, there is an ongoing investigation which is subject to the utmost confidentiality. In these hours, there have been many messages of solidarity from colleagues and lawyers.

Magistrate Maria Francesca Mariano has always been at the forefront of delicate trials, especially mafia-related ones, also as a judge of the Court of Assizes. Recently, as investigating judge, he had issued 22 precautionary custody orders, at the request of the public prosecutor of the anti-mafia district directorate of Lecce Carmen Ruggiero, after the blitz conducted in the summer by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Brindisi, which had hit the clan hard ” Lamendola-Cantanna”, considered organic to the Sacra Corona Unita.

Judge Mariano is also dedicated to promoting legality in schools, through books and theatrical performances, such as the one dedicated to judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.