Two years in prison and two thousand euros of fine. This is the condemnation issued by the gup of the Court of Vibo Valentia (at the end of a trial with abbreviated rite) against Pietro Crupi, 61, of Acquaro for the crimes of attempted extortion and persecutory acts against a lawyer of the Forum of Vibo Valentia, set up a civil party with the assistance of the lawyer Brunella Chiarello. For the quantification of the damages, the judge postponed to the court in civil.
The accused, who did not intend to pay the legal expenses to his lawyer who had followed him in a case, had received an injunction from his lawyer who had led to the blockage of his current accounts. Crupi had reacted by threatening the lawyer and mother of the latter by sending disturbing messages intimidating messages. A ban on his lawyer and the professional family members of the professional had been ordered against the accused, after the complaint by the person offended to the Carabinieri of Arena.
Several intimidating messages sent to the lawyer in which the former client said that he would become his “shadow”, even going so far as to leave on the car in use to the lawyer a booklet bearing the word “Maximus eternal”, containing prayers, of those usually in use for the bare of the deceased.