The associative crime falls on appeal, after the eleven heavy convictions of the first degree, to the trial for a vast tour of drug dealing between Messina and Torregrotta, dismantled by the carabinieri and the district anti -mafia direction of Messina in the last April. So there are strong “discounts” of punishment.
The operation called “main” was the result of an investigation conducted by the military of the Compagnia di Milazzo from which the operation of a partnership emerged, dedicated to the sale, in Torregrotta, cocaine, crack, hashish and marijuana. The carabinieri discovered that the drug was sold to buyers in the area or from Milazzo and other municipalities of the Mamertino, from Messina and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.
There were 11 in all the defendants in this sections of investigation, who at the time had chosen the abbreviated judgment to obtain the “discount” of one third of the sentence.
Here are the names and convictions on appeal
In concrete terms eight penalty reductions, a declarations of death of the offender, and two confirmations: Salvatore D’amore, di Milazzo (9 years and 18 thousand euros of fine in “continuation” with a previous 4 -year sentence, recorded a strong reduction compared to the first degree, the actual penalty of the process is 5 years); Giuseppe Di Blasi, from Messina (confirmed condemnation); Roberto Duchino, from Messina (4 years and 14 thousand euros); Filippo Iannelli, from Messina (6 years and 15 thousand euros); Maestrale Concetta, of Messina (one year and 2 thousand euros); Salvatore Minutoli, from Messina (3 years and 4 months, plus 12 thousand euros); Antonino Papale, of Messina defined in the conversations from d’amore “U main” (10 years and 24 thousand euros); Maurizio Papale, of Messina (declaration of “death of the offender”); Roberto Papale, of Messina (confirmation of the first instance sentence); Francesco Spadaro, from Messina (6 years and 12 thousand euros); Damiano Rizzo, from Messina (2 years and 8 thousand euros).
They defended the Tancredi lawyers Traclò, Salvatore Silvestro, Gianmarco Silvestro, Alessandro Trova, Rita Pandolfino, Alessandro Faramo and Antonello Scordo.