Salento gas pipeline, also activists from Val di Susa in Melendugno
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March 19, 2021 Sixty-seven sentences - and sentences of between 6 months, 3 years, 2 months and 15 days of imprisonment) and 25 acquittals.
Thus ends the trial before the single judge of Lecce Pietro Baffa of 92 people, many of whom adherents to the No Tap Movement accused in three proceedings for the riots committed between 2017 and 2019 on the occasion of the start of the works for the construction of the gas pipeline Tap in Melendugno, in Salento.
The defendants also included activists who arrived in Salento from all over Italy to support the movement's protest.
The charges, disputed in various capacities, are of private violence, interruption of public service, dangerous ignition of bombs, disfigurement, damage, unauthorized demonstration, resistance and insult to a public official, violation of the prohibition to return to Melendugno.
The sentence to the highest penalty, however, was inflicted on Giacomo Montefusco, considered one of the leaders of the riot.
For 25 defendants, the judge ordered the acquittal because through the photos and video footage it was not possible to arrive at a certain identification.
The accusation was supported by the deputy prosecutor Guglielmo Cataldi and by the substitutes Francesca Miglietta and Maria Consolata Moschettini.
The company Tap (Trans Adriatic Pipeline), which filed a civil action in two of the proceedings, will be compensated in civil proceedings.
There were many police vehicles guarding the external area of the bunker while waiting for the sentence to be read.