• Carminati's lawyer: "This is a trial"
  • Middle world, twenty indictments and one sentence
  • Mondo di Mezzo, Gabrielli: some corruption is like the mafia, the crime should be changed
  • 'Mondo di Mezzo', the prosecutor: sentenced Carminati to 26 and a half years and Buzzi to 25 years and 9 months
  • 'Middle world', asked for trial for 21 also Carminati. No accusation of mafia association

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11 September 2018 In the bunker room of Rebibbia the sentence arrived in the appeal process to the so-called 'Middle World': the college of judges chaired by Claudio Tortora after retiring to the council chamber read the expected second degree sentence. The main defendants were sentenced to slightly reduced sentences compared to the first degree: Massimo Carminati at 14 years and 6 months, Salvatore Buzzi at 18 years and 4 months. But the mafia-type criminal association has been recognized.

Reduced penalties for Buzzi and Carminati
The judges of the Rome court sentenced the so-called Ras of the co-workers, Salvatore Buzzi, to 18 years and 4 months. A penalty of 14 years and six months was adopted against Massimo Carminati, a former Nar terrorist. According to Carminati's lawyer, generic extenuating circumstances were recognized, recidivism denied and he was acquitted of some marginal crimes. Connected by videoconference by the penitentiaries of Opera and Tolmezzo, Buzzi and Carminati did not want to be filmed by the cameras when reading the sentence. 

+++ Judgment of appeal #mondodimezzo sentenced to 14.6 months the former black terrorist Carminati, another 18.4 months to the man of the Buzzi coop @RaiNews

- Silvia Balducci (@silviabalducci) 11 September 2018

Recognized the aggravating circumstance of the mafia association
The court recognized the mafia association (article 416 bis) in the trial in the Middle World, overturning the setting of the judges of first instance. The college, chaired by Claudio Tortora, also recognized the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.

Il Mondo di Mezzo is mafia
The judges on the charge of mafia have overturned the first instance sentence of the trial in the bunker room of Rebibbia. The appeal judges therefore admitted the crime of mafia-type criminal association, an accusation which fell in the first instance verdict of July 2017, which had recognized the existence of two "simple" criminal associations whose leaders were Carminati and Buzzi.  

Probation at the end of the sentence for Buzzi, Carminati and two others
The only four defendants in the trial in the Middle World who were sentenced to sentences of more than ten years of imprisonment were also subject to the security measure of probation for 3 years, from perform once the sentence is expiated. The third court of appeal in Rome, in fact, ordered him against Salvatore Buzzi (sentenced to 18 years and 4 months imprisonment), Massimo Carminati (14 and a half years), Riccardo Brugia (11 years and 4 months ) and Matteo Calvio (10 years and 4 months).

The prosecutor: acknowledged our thesis
 "We have always said that the sentences must be respected. We did it at first instance and we will do it even now. The Court of Appeal decided that the criminal association that we had brought to trial was of a mafia type and he used the mafia method. It was a question of law that the judges evidently considered well founded ". So said the deputy attorney Giuseppe Cascini, in the courtroom together with the prosecutor Luca Tescaroli in application to the deputy attorneys general Antonio Sensale and Pietro Catalani.

Salvi: Mafia recognition is the point of arrival and departure
"The Court of Appeal of Rome accepted the appeal of the General Prosecutor and the Public Prosecutor of Rome and recognized the mafia character of the association. This is the point of arrival an intense commitment and at the same time starting ". So in a note the attorney general of the Court of Appeal of Rome, Giovanni Salvi. "The awareness of the existence also in Rome and Lazio of criminal forces capable of influencing economic and political life and of inducing fear in the population remains the center of reference for judicial initiatives, which must necessarily be accompanied by the growth of civil conscience and from the restructuring of the public administration structure ", the note continues. "The organizational choice to set up a mixed working group of the General Prosecutor and the Public Prosecutor's Office has proved effective, to which thanks go to my office", concludes Salvi. 

All the convicts for mafia association
There are 18 defendants to whom, in various capacities and according to the different procedural positions, the judges of the third Court of Appeal attributed the association to a mafia-type crime (416 bis penal code), or the only external competition, and the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method foreseen by article 7 of the law of 1991. In addition to the names of Carminati and Buzzi, the list includes those of Claudio Bolla (4 years and 5 months), Riccardo Brugia (11 years and 4 months), Emanuela Bugitti (3 years and 8 months), Claudio Caldarelli (9 years and 4 months), Matteo Calvio (10 years and 4 months), Paolo Di Ninno (6 years and 3 months), Agostino Gaglianone (4 years and 10 months), Alessandra Garrone (6 years and 6 months), Luca Gramazio (8 years and 8 months), Carlo Maria Guarani '(4 years and 10 months), Giovanni Lacopo (5 years and 4 months), Roberto Lacopo ( 8 years), Michele Nacamulli (3 years and 11 months), Franco Panzironi (8 years and 4 months), Carlo Pucci (7 years and 8 months) and Fabrizio Franco Testa (9 years and 4 months).

Carminati's lawyer: "A trial"
Lapidary the comment of Massimo Carminati's lawyer on reading the sentence. "I said it and I repeat it: this is a trial", says Giosuè Bruno Nasi on the microphone of the correspondent of Rainews24 Silvia Balducci.



The first instance sentence
In July 2017, the existence of two "simple" criminal associations was recognized, which had the points of reference in Carminati and Buzzi. For the former Nar the pg had asked for a sentence of 26 and a half years and for Buzzi he asked for 25 years and 9 months. At first instance the two were sentenced to 20 and 19 years respectively. In total, 430 years of convictions against the accused were renewed, including 19 accused of mafia association.

Raggi: Rome devastated by crime and corrupt politics
The appeal sentence in the 'Mondo di Mezzo' trial recognizes the crime of mafia-type criminal association, "crime and corrupt politics have devastated Rome, those responsible for just paying. We continue our journey on the path of legality". The mayor of the capital, Virginia Raggi wrote on Twitter, who had already commented in the courtroom immediately after the ruling of the court that it "confirms, if there is still need, that we must keep the bar straight on legality. This is what we are doing and we will continue to do for this city and the citizens ".

Lawyer of Libera: ruling recognizes investigative work
"This ruling fully recognizes the value of the work of the Public Prosecutor of Rome and the Carabinieri". So the lawyer Giulio Vasaturo, civil lawyer for the free association of Don Luigi Ciotti, comments on the sentence of the appeal process to the 'Middle World'. "My thoughts at the moment also go to those journalists, such as Lirio Abbate, who first illuminated the reality of this mafia organization and who were therefore subject to immense attacks", he adds.