A heavy sentence was decided for the 62 -year -old Mario Marlettaauthor of the violent aggression atFormer mayor of Rome and former provincial councilor Nicola Merlinowhich took place on September 17, 2021.
The criminal section of the Court of Messina issued the sentence against him considering the crime of attempted murder, deciding a penalty of 7 years of imprisonment in addition to the payment of procedural costs. The judges also applied to Marletta, who was assisted by the lawyers Domenico and Laura Rizzotti, the perpetual interdiction from public offices and the legal interdiction for the duration of the sentence. They also definitively applied to him the safety measure of hospitalization in a judicial psychiatric hospital, to be performed at a Rems to the judgment of the sentence.
They also sentenced him to compensation for damages in the civil seat in favor of the former mayor Merlino, who was assisted as a civil party during the trial by the lawyer Ettore Cappuccio, as well as the recast of the expenses of the Constitution and Defense.
The hypothesis of a crime of attempted murder that held in the classroom was formulated in the preliminary investigations by the prosecutor Marco Accolla, who followed the story and coordinated the investigation of the carabinieri.
September 17, 2021 was late evening when Marletta, along the streets of the Tyrrhenian center, He chased Merlin with the car and then hit him several times with the handle of an acceptance. Those facts could lead to something much more serious and in any case left the mayor in rather precarious health conditions, given that his hospitalization was necessary in Messina, at the Papardo. In the scuffle, in that quarter of an hour of ordinary madness, Merlin also broke an arm in the extreme attempt to shelter from the blows. It could end very badly.
