The declarations of the collaborator of justice Vincenzo Pasquino found full enhancement from the district gup of Reggio Calabria, Antonino Foti, who at the end of the “Eureka” trial – concluded the day before yesterday with abbreviated rite – inflicted 76 convictions for over a thousand years in total prison and 7 acquittals. A verdict that has affected alleged exponents of some of the most rooted consortiums of the ‘Ndrangheta: from the Nirta and Strange to the Giorgi, Romeo, skin and Mammoliti of San Luca, up to the perre of Platì and the Bruzzaniti of Africo.
Among the central nodes of the hearing, the use of the interceptions made through the latest generation crypto-telephones, in particular the Sky-Ecc chats, and the weight of the declarations of the collaborators of justice. Among these, Pasquino, whose revelations came after the precautionary phase. Sentenced at the first instance at 6 years and 8 months, Pasquino has been recognized by the mitigating factor foreseen by the consolidated text on drugs for those who work to provide decisive tests or to subtract resources from the criminal association. To this were added the recognition of the constraint of continuation and the reduction of punishment for the choice of the abbreviated rite.
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