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The appeal judgment of Emilia, the largest mafia trial in northern Italy, arranged 712 years in prison in total and transforms 25 first-degree convictions into acquittals among the 118 cases discussed in 11 months of hearings. The president of the Court of Appeal read the device in the bunker classroom of the Dozza prison in Bologna Alberto Pederiali who, since February 13, in a manner strongly conditioned by the anticovid security measures, conducted the hearings together with colleagues Maurizio passarini me Giuditta Silvestrini. Two charges of association with the mafia (Francesco Lomonaco me Gabriele valerioti) while for the rest of the accused convictions confirmed or reduced in part, thanks also to the reunification of the two first degree rites. The clan of ‘ndrangheta operating in Emilia romagna, independent and evolved from the matrix of Great Aracri di Cutro, therefore, also exists for the Court of Bologna and the first degree sentence, strongly contested by defense lawyers, resists verification of the appeal.
The mafia-like criminal association is confirmed to Giuseppe Iaquinta (13 years in prison), father of the national team footballer Vincenzo, world champion in Germany, who in turn received a sentence discount (from 2 to 1 year) and a probation. Michele Bolognino, the only one of the six clan leaders who had chosen the ordinary rite, is sentenced to 21 years and 3 months. The modenes entrepreneur Augusto Bianchini, accused of having resorted to the ‘Ndrangheta for the management of construction works after the earthquake of 2012, on trial with his wife Bruna Braga and their son Alessandro, has been for 9 years. Other business owners sentenced with reduced sentences include Omar costi (9 years and 8 months), Mirco Salsi (3 years) and Silvano Vecchi (2 years). On the other hand, acquitted, as also requested by the substitute p. Valter Giovannini for the accusation, the modenes businessman who operates in the field of petroleum products Gino Gibertini. Among the families of Calabrian origin settled in Reggio Emilia, the Vertinelli family receives a severe blow, businessmen first extorted from the ‘Ndrangheta and later joined by the bandit of the mafia: 17 years and 4 months in Palmo, 16 years and 4 months to his brother Giuseppe, 4 years each to 3 children. Hard sentences also for the family of gods. Mute: 12 years for Luigi, 10 years and 8 months for Antonio (born in 55), 11 years and 4 months for Antonio in 78, 8 years and 6 months for that of 71. Increase in sentence (from 5 to 9 years ) for the collaborator of justice Salvatore muto. Other harsh penalties, from 7 to 23 years in prison, copy prominent men of the clan who, both on appeal in Bologna and in the first degree in Reggio, tried to defend themselves saying: I made many mistakes in my life, and I paid for them, but in the ‘Ndrangheta never. Men like Gaetano blasco, the Amato brothers, Carmine Belfiore, Antonio Crivaro, Gianni Floro Vito, Vincenzo Mancuso, Mario Vulcano.
Another important figure of the mafia organization whose position was withdrawn from the trial, Weather in Pasquale Brescia, corrected 13 years in the appeal ruling of recent October. This is the businessman known to have sent a threatening letter to the mayor of Reggio Emilia Luca vecchi. He had done so in 2016 when the investigations of the DDA of Bologna, the prefect’s injunction Antonella De Miro and the beginning of the trial, he had taken the ground under the feet of the illicit affairs and unhealthy relationships of the clan, also woven with committed characters from the police. In general, these sentences confirm the line of the Attorney General, represented in the courtroom by Lucia Musti, Luciana Cicerchia, Valter Giovannini and Beatrice Ronchi, First Degree Prosecutor with Marco Mescolini. The defense lawyers of the 93 convicted are left with the appeal.
Shortly before the sentence, at the opening of the hearing, some defendants had made the last spontaneous statements to reaffirm their innocence. Francesco Amato, the man who after the 19-year first-degree sentence had kidnapped five people threatening them with a knife in a Reggio Emilia post office, cited the names of the first-degree judges and prosecutors, adding that of the attorney general attached to the appeal Lucía Musti, to say: “These are the shame of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella“. Alfredo Amato, sentenced to 19 years as his brother in the first instance, immediately intervened in his defense:” Forgive my brother – he said – he looks bad but he is not. Like all of us who are not gangsters, he is angry for being convicted and also suffers from mental disorders. If he were healthy, surely he would not go to the post office to kidnap people. “These are the last words of the hearing in Aemilia’s appeal process. Six hours later the sentence arrives: Alfredo Amato He is sentenced to 17 years, his brother Francesco to 16 years and 9 months.
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