All convicted. Today the Court of Crotone imposed suspended sentences from 1 year and 6 months to 2 years in prison for the three policemen of the Flying Squad accused of having carried out, in 2022, a series of alleged abuses against a boy, aged 14 at the time, following a house search. Prosecutor Rosaria Multari, at the end of her indictment, had asked for higher sentences than those inflicted.
The 53-year-old Giuseppe Brunetti ended up under accusation, found guilty of private violence: according to the judges, he would have pulled the minor, stopped and taken to the police station, throwing him against a wardrobe and railing against him with offensive phrases, then forcing him to repeat them to the other policemen present. Brunetti was also accused of forgery: according to the Prosecutor’s Office, he would have drawn up a report stating that the officers had intervened in the 14-year-old’s apartment due to a family dispute, and that the mother would have declared that she had been attacked by her son. For Brunetti and colleagues Giovanni Bramato and Cinzia Giannetta, the judging panel found the charges of trespassing to be founded, as they would have entered the warehouse near the victim’s home without a warrant, and of omission of official acts, for not having prepared the search reports. However, the charge of arbitrary search was dropped for all the accused. The defense team was made up of lawyers Nuccio Barbuto, Francesco Barbuto and Fabrizio Salviati.