The lawyers Massimo Canale and Carlo Morace, defenders of the architect Marcello Cammera in the “Gotha” trial, expressed satisfaction with the sentence of the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria which acquitted the former manager of the public works maintenance sector of the Municipality of Reggio Calabria of the residual charge of personal aiding and abetting with the formula “because the fact does not exist”.
At first instance Cammera was sentenced to two years in prison for this charge.
The judicial case
According to what was highlighted by the lawyers, this brings to an end a long procedural event during which Marcello Cammera suffered a year and seven months of deprivation of personal liberty for the most serious charge of external complicity in a mafia association, a crime for which he had already been acquitted in first instance by the Court.
In the reasons for that sentence, it is underlined in the defenders’ note, “his innocence and also the correctness of his administrative action” were recognized.
The waiver of the prescription
The acquittal also from the charge of personal aiding and abetting definitively closes the judicial proceedings. The defenders speak of the “immense suffering” experienced by the architect Cammera, due both to the imprisonment he suffered and to the media story which, according to what is claimed in the note, presented him as guilty from the beginning.
The lawyers also highlight that Marcello Cammera waived the statute of limitations on appeal “in order to have his innocence fully recognized from all charges”.