Surprise in the long trial in Palermo: the first instance sentence is upset
PALERMO. The Palermo Assize Court of Appeal acquitted the former officers of the Ros Mario Mori, Antonio Subranni and Giuseppe De Donno and Senator Marcello Dell’Utri at the trial on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation, accused of threatening the State Political Body . In the first instance they had all been sentenced to very severe penalties. The accusations against the repentant Giovanni Brusca have been declared prescribed. Penalty reduced to the boss Leoluca Bagarella. The conviction of the mafia boss Nino Cinà confirmed.
For Bagarella, the judges re-qualified the crime as an attempted threat to the State Political Body, declaring the charges partially prescribed. This resulted in a slight reduction in the sentence passed from 28 to 27 years. Confirmed 12 years in Cinà. The former officers of the Ros Mario Mori, Antonio Subranni and Giuseppe De Donno were acquitted with the formula because the “fact does not constitute a crime”, while Dell’Utri “for not having committed the fact”. The prescription of the accusations against the repentant Giovanni Brusca has been confirmed.
The appeal, during which the trial was reopened, began on April 29, 2019. During the trial, another defendant, Massimo Ciancimino, son of the former mafia mayor of Palermo Vito, who responded for aggravated slander to the former police chief Gianni De Gennaro and competition in mafia association.