Venice, the sentence: the Mala del Tronchetto is not mafia
For the judge in the preliminary investigations, a year ago, it was not a question of a mafia-type association but only of a criminal gang that acted with a mafia method. On Friday 18 November, upon reading the sentences for the 24 defendants (out of a total of 78) who had requested the abbreviated procedure, even that aggravating circumstance was lost, not having convinced the magistrate Benedetta Vitolo. Therefore all the sentences requested by the prosecutor Giovanni Zorzi for the members of the self-proclaimed new mala del Brenta have been reducedthe intromitter-led training Loris Trabujo and by some veterans of Felice Maniero who in recent years had tried to resume the row of extortion and robbery but also to conquer the entire Tronchetto market, the Venetian tourist terminal where Trabujo worked.
Penalty reduced by almost 90 years
Just Trabujo, so 18 years had been requested, 12 were being nominatedbut between acquittals and reductions of sentences (also because, in fact, the worst aggravating circumstances have been eliminated) almost 90 years in prison have been lost in total: Zorzi’s requests for abbreviations reached a total of 140 years, Vitolo let 52 pass. Trabujo, defended by the lawyer Stefania Pattarello, as already mentioned, had six years deducted; marco Padovani (lawyers Vanzetti and Fragasso) passed from 12 to six years; Antonio Guerrieri (lawyers Vanzetti and Drusian) dropped from 10 to two; Ivan Giantin (Frank and Gentilini lawyers) from 10 years to two and eight months; Daniele Corradini (Gentilini lawyer) from 10 to 5; Flora Stecca (lawyers Vanzetti and Tedeschi) from eight to three; for Fatim Shemellari (lawyer Marin) it went from six to five. He reduced the sentences of Pintonello, Cargnelli, Pamela Trabujo, De Rossi and Marampon to two years, while those of Zago and Bozzola to three. Instead, Lodato (lawyer Marin), Laterza (lawyers Andreotti and Loria), Statua, Zennaro (lawyer Di Stasi), Farinati, Fedrigo and Zulian were acquitted.
The hearing of April 13
Except that of Loris Trabujo, however, the others are all minor positions: Maniero’s lieutenants such as Paolo Pattarello (who three weeks ago slashed Trabujo himself in the courtroom) and Gilberto Boatto have been indicted and during the trial Zorzi will resubmit his accusatory system all over again. The first hearing scheduled for April 13 of next year.
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November 18, 2022 (change November 18, 2022 | 18:30)
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