No extortion from the funeral parlor, the cemetery chaplain acquitted
VERONA – The Court of Appeal of Venice he acquitted because “the fact does not exist” Don Silvano Corsichaplain of the Verona Cemetery, who was sentenced February 26, 2015 by the investigating judge to one year and two months and a fine of 300 euros, for attempted extortion against a funeral home firm. The priest was accused by the company of having demanded money of 10 or 20 euros for the celebration of a funeral or for the blessing of the ashes. The accusations date back to 2013, when Don Silvano, “for the sole purpose of compensating two deacons coming from outside Verona – underlines the Veronese Curia in a note – who, bearing in the first instance the expenses for the petrol of their cars, had requested several times to the funeral parlor the payment of 10 euros to be able to compensate the expenses“. The priest, the Scaliger Church emphasizes, “was made like a sinister extortionist against the relatives of the dead”. The company denounced the alleged extortion to the bishop of Verona, in front of whom a peaceful solution to the affair was found in July 2013. But the same company had filed a complaint with the Guardia di Finanza and then with the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The sentence of the Veronese magistrate was appealed in 2015 by the defenders of Don Silvano and after seven years, on 25 January, the second criminal section of the Court of Appeal of Venice accepted the appeal of the lawyers Lorenzo Pilon and Francesco Delaini.