The trial for defamation against Cateno De Lucaformer mayor of Messina, current first citizen of Taormina and of Sicilian Armando. The process arose from one complaint by the former general prosecutor of Messina Vincenzo Barbaro, Although written in the book “La Lupara judicial” published by Sicilian. At first instance, in Reggio Calabria, De Luca had been sentenced to 8 months. The Court of Appeal, chaired by the judge Elisabetta Palumbopartly reformed the first instance sentence by condemning De Luca to one fine of 5,750 euros, under penalty suspended. Instead, it was acquitted because the fact does not exist Armando Sicilian and the civil statutes have also been revoked. Immediately after the De Luca sentence, on social media, he welcomed the sentence with joy. In a statement the lawyer Carlo Taorminawho defended him said that the Court: “He reserved for De Luca a reproach of verbal excess that, judicial practice, gives rise to the application of the fine”.
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