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Barely contains his anger, the lawyer Raffaele Della Valle, leaving the courthouse after the sentenced to 10 years from his client, the suspended regional councilor Marco Sorbara, convicted of external competition in a mafia association. “Democracy is in danger – he says – because if we hold a public trial, in debate, and if our witnesses are annulled, saying they are false, we close the courts.”.
He echoes Sorbara’s other attorney, her brother Sandro (to round out the defense team, attorney Corrado bellora): “I am convinced, as a brother and as a lawyer, of Marco’s innocence”, because “no tests, nothing has been proven“. According to the lawyer, the element for which the accused was convicted” is an episode of the trial ‘Tempus Venit’ “, on events of 2011 and in which the former Minister of Social Policies of the Aosta City Council was not on trial. In addition to not having been “intercepted in ‘Gehenna’.” “We will move on,” assures the lawyer, announcing an appeal and, if necessary, in the Supreme Court.
The lawyers for the other defendants (Raso, Giachino, Prettico and Carcea, all guilty themselves) left via Ollietti without making statements to journalists. Opposite in sign, the words of Donatella corti, contact person of “Libera Valle d’Aosta”, who became a civil party in the process, who will receive one of the compensation established in the sentence: “Our 2012 dossier” on the ‘Ndrangheta in the Valley’ said the same things what the prosecutor said in his indictment. “
On the brink of silence, as is the practice, the representatives of the prosecution. The chief prosecutor of Turin, former coordinator of the PDD, Anna Maria Loreto, present at the reading of the sentence together with the alternates Valerio Longi me Stefano Castellani, holders of the file by which the trial cycle of first instance has been closed today, simply observed: “The sentences are respected. We have done our duty“As of tomorrow, the ninety days announced by the jury for the presentation of the reasons will run.
