35 Facts About Giuliano Mignini

Giuliano Mignini retired as a public prosecutor in Perugia, Umbria, in 2020.

Giuliano Mignini is known for his involvement as the prosecutor in the investigation of the death of Francesco Narducci, a doctor who was found dead in the Trasimeno lake in 1985.

Giuliano Mignini was joined by prosecutors from the Florence jurisdiction who were investigating on the deceased doctor, as they believed Narducci was involved in the Monster of Florence serial murders case.

Giuliano Mignini's investigation resulted in the prosecution of 20 individuals over the following years, on allegations indirectly connected to Narducci's death such as cover-up and side-tracking charges.

Giuliano Mignini was convicted of abuse of office in 2008 together with police officer Michele Giuttari in a case connected to the Narducci investigations.

Giuliano Mignini came to wider public attention as the prosecutor who led the 2007 investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher, and one of the prosecutors who led the subsequent prosecution of Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox, and Raffaele Sollecito.

Giuliano Mignini was born in 1950 in Perugia, the son of a high-school teacher belonging to a family of sculptors.

Giuliano Mignini obtained his law degree from the University of Perugia.

Giuliano Mignini had wished to pursue a career in the Air Force, but he was rejected by the Pilots' Academy because of a form of daltonism.

Giuliano Mignini passed the magistrate's examination in 1979, and worked for one year in Volterra serving as pretore.

Giuliano Mignini served for several years as judge in the courts of Pisa and Terni, where he worked on different times both as a criminal and as a civil judge.

Giuliano Mignini's body was discovered a month after the final double-murder linked to the Monster of Florence.

In early 2002, blogger Gabriella Carlizzi contacted Giuliano Mignini regarding her theories about Narducci being part of a secret society behind the Monster killings.

Narducci's name had emerged within an ongoing phone stalking case Giuliano Mignini was investigating, where some of the conversations they recorded included references to the Monster of Florence and secret societies.

Giuliano Mignini asserted that a second body had been used to stage a drowning in the lake, as a cover up for the killing, and claimed to have sufficient evidence that the whole finding of the body at the lake had been a staging, performed at the time as part of a cover-up by state authorities, coordinated by the provincial head of police.

Giuliano Mignini alleged that Narducci had been involved in the murders of the Monster of Florence case, which, according to the theories of the Florence Prosecution, involved a network of other people linked together by a secret society, and that he had been possibly killed on order of his father, Ugo Narducci, a member of a masonic lodge himself.

Giuliano Mignini's theory involved a complicated conspiracy of 20 people, including government officials and law enforcement officers, who all concurred in covering up Narducci's cause of death.

Giuliano Mignini indicted 20 people and charged them with the concealment of Narducci's murder.

On 23 February 2006, Giuliano Mignini summoned American author Douglas Preston for questioning as a person informed about facts related to Spezi's activities.

The police, on Giuliano Mignini's orders, had wiretapped Spezi's phone conversations with Preston regarding a villa in the countryside of Tuscany.

Giuliano Mignini formally suspected Spezi of complicity in the homicides of the Monster of Florence case.

Giuliano Mignini refused to surrender the investigation, claiming the Trasimeno Lake shore where the body was recovered was in territory under his jurisdiction.

The Florence police presented Giuliano Mignini a recorded conversation with the voice of prosecutor Paolo Canessa apparently admitting that his boss, Chief Prosecutor of Florence Ubaldo Nannucci, could not decide freely but rather was being forced by superior powers.

Giuliano Mignini opened an investigation against Nannucci and against the Chief of Police in Florence, Giuseppe De Donno, baed on the recording of Canessa's voice.

Giuliano Mignini accused both the Florence Prosecution and the Florence Police of voluntarily obstructing police activity and hindering the investigation into the death of Narducci.

Florence prosecution accused Giuliano Mignini of carrying on a "parallel investigation" in order to cover up for Giuttari's alleged fabrication of a false recording of Canessa's conversation, and ordered a police raid of his office.

Giuliano Mignini was charged of being implicated in the forging of a fake audio recording and abusing his powers as he investigated De Donno, and for having wiretapped phone calls of three journalists and two police officers for unjustified reasons.

Giuliano Mignini objected that the Florence Magistrates had no jurisdiction on him because of their conflict of interest.

Giuliano Mignini underwent a lengthy trial by the CSM about the Florence allegations on Narducci case.

Giuliano Mignini was one of the two prosecutors who directed the investigation of the case.

In February 2013, Giuliano Mignini launched a defamation suit against Raffaele Sollecito for allegations in Sollecito's book, Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox, Presumed Guilty, including claims of secret negotiations between Giuliano Mignini and Sollecito's family.

Giuliano Mignini later withdrew his claims, and the remainder of the suit was dismissed.

On 4 December 2015, Giuliano Mignini was disciplined by the High Council of the Judiciary for violation of correct procedure in the arrest of Sollecito in November 2007.

In June 2010, Giuliano Mignini was the prosecutor involved in the case of porn star Brigitta Bulgari who was arrested and held for 11 days after being charged with child pornography; this followed the surfacing of a mobile phone video showing 15-year-old boys touching her breasts while she performed as a stripper in an Umbria night club.

Giuliano Mignini said that she would seek monetary damages for "muddying her name", and planned to write a book about her experiences after arrest.