Hundreds get hard time in historic Italian mafia trial
Christian Fernsby ▼ | November 21, 2023
An Italian court on Monday convicted more than 200 mobsters and their white collar helpers, the culmination of a trial against Calabria's 'Ndrangheta.Article continues below
For over an hour and a half, the president of the court in southern Vibo Valentia, Brigida Cavasino, steadily read out the names of the guilty and their sentences, which ranged from 30 years to a few months, as defendants incarcerated in prisons across the country watched via videolink.
Prosecutors had asked for sentences totalling nearly 5,000 years for 322 accused mafia members operating in the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia and their white collar collaborators who have exercised a virtual stranglehold over the local population.
But after a trial that lasted two years and nine months, the court doled out just about half that total time, with convictions of 207 defendants on Monday, including four seasoned members of the 'Ndrangheta each sentenced to 30 years in jail.
The three judge panel acquitted 131 defendants, including 16 for whom prosecutors had recommended acquittal.
Underscoring the 'Ndrangheta's close ties with the powerful, one of the trial's most high profile defendants was 70 year old former parliamentarian and defence lawyer Giancarlo Pittelli, accused of being a fixer for the mafia.
He received 11 years, short of the 17 years prosecutors had requested.
For the first time in such trials, the defendants list included many non mafia members, including police, public servants and others.
The court handed a sentence of 10 years in prison to a high ranking member of the financial police working within Italy's anti mafia department.
He was found guilty of passing along details from judicial investigations to the 'Ndrangheta. ■ What to read next
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