Chapter 32
The trial
(Third person)
Monday, 6 April 2013
Tension was sky high. They’d reached the day of the first hearing with more questions than answers.
The Law Courts were still half-deserted. The police at the entrance let them through without even checking their law society ID cards. Once past the entrance barriers they headed towards the coffee shop to recap on what awaited them inside the courtroom.
It was 8:00 a.m. and there was nobody in the courtroom, except the two of them, The Judge would appear at his leisure in about two hours’ time.
To Tancredi, it seemed as though about a hundred years had gone by when the associate judge, having taken his seat, shouted: ‘Riccio Case, criminal records bureau register no. 894/13’.
Riccio had arrived accompanied by two prison office
