It concluded, in the late afternoon today, before the Court of Appeal of Catanzaro – with the confirmation of the sentence of acquittal because the fact does not exist, the trial called “Procurement and freemasonry” against the architect Francesco Arcuri di Diamantedefended by the lawyer Francesco Liserre. Previously the Paola Gup, following the definition of the judicial matter in the form of the abbreviated procedure, had acquitted the accused because the fact does not exist, highlighting the absolute non-existence of the objective element of the criminal case in dispute, even in the possible requalification in the form of an attempt to engage in other criminal conduct, lacking, in this regard, any factual and legal prerequisite worthy of criminal relevance. Since the preliminary investigations, as will be remembered, the first hypotheses of crime had been dropped against Arcuri: criminal association, violation of the Anselmi law (deviant freemasonry) and auction rigging. The only remaining dispute was the alleged formation of false signatures, in collaboration with other defendants and to the detriment of the then mayor of Belvedere.
The Public Prosecutor, following his indictment, had asked for the accused to be sentenced to one year and six months in prison. However, the judge, after a long deliberation, accepting the defense requests, acquitted Arcuri with the broad formula “because the fact does not exist”. The prosecutor appealed against the acquittal sentence, requesting that the accused be convicted. Today, the first criminal section of the Catanzaro Court, sharing the defense arguments of the lawyer Liserre, confirmed the acquittal sentence against the architect Arcuri, because the fact does not exist.