Chivasso, were arrested by the carabinieri in 2017 in the Panamera Vista operation, the acquittal for the fire of eight cars the Supreme Court returns to the courtroom
CHIVASSO. They had been convicted of extortion with an aggravating circumstance of the mafia method, but now the brothers Domenico and Francesco Gioffrè, 35 and 38, arrested in 2017 as part of the Panamera operation, will return on appeal. The Court of Cassation accepted the appeals of the lawyers of the two, residing in Chivasso.
They had in fact been acquitted of the accusation of having set fire to eight cars inside the Autovip dealership in Chivasso and on appeal of the consequent crime of extortion for having forced him “to grant them the car cleaning service through Vins car wash, to them attributable “, thus revoking the assignment to a company in Verolengo. Done, the latter for which they had been condemned by the Gup and acquitted on appeal.
The Supreme Court also returned the papers for extortion to the owner of the Verolengo car wash to whom, with a ruling confirmed on appeal, he had been ordered with the mafia method not to accept any more assignments from Autovip.
The Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the lawyers Antonino Napoli and Giuseppe Germanò of the Palmi court, who argued that the decision on these grounds was illogical, while they rejected it for everything else.
The Gioffrè brothers are originally from Amato di Taurianova and linked by kinship ties with the Gioffrè di Seminara, being the nephews of the deceased Vincenzo Domenico Gioffrè (called Ringo) and cousins of the Gioffrè accused in the «Artemisia» trial.
The two had been arrested in 2017 during a long investigation conducted by the Carabinieri of the Chivasso operational unit that began in 2013 against some people believed to be affiliated with the ‘Ndrangheta who were charged, for various reasons, in addition to the crime of criminal association. mafia various crimes: attempted murder, personal injury, extortion, damage, drug trafficking, carrying and possession of weapons and other aggravated by the mafia method.
During the shortened procedure, the judge, accepting the arguments of the Naples and Germanò lawyers, had deemed the mafia association non-existent.
According to the judges, the group of people to which the two Gioffrè would have belonged would not have enjoyed a criminal reputation and consequently could not have generated the force of intimidation typical of the ‘Ndrangheta clubs.
The Court of Appeal had rejected the appeal of the Public Prosecutor against the acquittal for the crime of association and, on the other hand, had condemned the two Gioffrè brothers for the crimes of extortion aggravated by the mafia method and Francesco alone for arms.
The Court of Cassation also accepted the appeal of the Attorney General against the acquittal of the Turin Court of Appeal for the accused Antonio Guerra and Luciano Ilacqua for the crime of aggravated extortion against Antonio Piperato, and Antonio Guerra for the crime of fictitious header .
The applicants were, in addition to the Attorney General and the two Gioffrè brothers, Antonio Guerra, Francesco Grosso, Francesco Ilacqua and Luciano Ilacqua. In the Panamera trial, Chivasso, Leinì and Settimo Torinese were the civil parties.