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01 July 2021 Twelve years of imprisonment for Giuseppe Montella, the police officer considered the leader of the group of the Levante barracks in Piacenza which last year, in full lockdown, was closed after drug dealing and torture emerged.



This is the sentence pronounced in abbreviated form by the court, after the prosecutor had asked for a sentence of 16 years.



Sentenced - always to penalties lower than the demands of the prosecution - the contracted officer Salvatore Cappellano to 8 years (the request was for 14 years, 5 months and 10 days), 6 years for the colleague


Giacomo Falanga (13 years the request for sentence), 4 years for Marco Orlando (5 years the request) at the time commander of the Via Caccialupo station. For Daniele Spagnolo the lower sentence is 3 years and 4 months (request from the power of attorney 7 years and 8 months).



Less than a year after the handcuffs and the seizure of the Levante barracks - the first time in Italy - the verdict arrives against those who with behavior of "exceptional gravity have offended the carabinieri who work in silence and with a spirit of service", the words used by the chief prosecutor in the indictment last April. In the Piacenza Expo classroom, transformed into a court to comply with anti Covid regulations, before the gup Fiammetta Modica, it was prosecutor Antonio Colonna who rebuilt "the Levant system" and explained the responsibilities of all the accused "blinded by the arrogance of those who believe themselves above the rules ", capable of maintaining a parallel system made up of lies, of drug seizures sold through trusted pusher, of 'engineered' arreststo increase the statistics, of beatings in such a way as to configure torture. The contempt shines through in listing the alleged offenses committed by the five carabinieri who have chosen the abbreviated one - it allows the reduction of a third of the sentence - to defend against a slew of crimes ranging from drug dealing to embezzlement, from forgery to injuries and to torture.



"There are people who wear uniforms with honor and for this reason reading these


facts is a source of humiliation and shame. I dedicate my speech to


these valiant women and men", one of the passages


of the intervention before the civil parties, including some associations


of carabinieri. The reasons will be announced in 90 days.



(Afe / Adnkronos)



ISSN 2465 - 1222


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