The sentence to life imprisonment for Rosaria Mancuso canceled by the Court of Cassation67 years old, from Limbadi (VV), remedied on appeal for the self -bomb cost the life of the biologist Matteo Vinci On April 9, 2018 in Limbadi.
For Rosaria Mancuso, a new second degree trial will be necessary before the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Catanzaro, in acceptance of an appeal by the lawyers Francesco Lojacono and Valerio Spigarelli (in the merit phase also defense by the lawyers Giovanni Vecchio and Francesco Capria).
Confirmed, however, the life imprisonment for Vito Barbara, 31 years old (son -in -law of Rosaria Mancuso, assisted by lawyers Vannetiello and Costarella) e The 6 years convictions for Domenico Di Grillo (Mancuso’s husband, defended by the lawyers from Giunta and Capria), 75 years old, of Limbadi, (receiving a pump rifle) and 3 years for Lucia Di Grillo (daughter of Rosaria Mancuso, defended by the lawyers Vecchio and Rania).
The defenders of Rosaria Mancuso supported in front of the Cassation The radical absence of elements proving the murder mandate that had been attributed to it by the accusation. Rosaria Mancuso (sister of the most well -known bosses of the ‘Ndrangheta Giuseppe, Diego, Francesco and Pantaleone) must now be immediately released from the first instance sentence (of December 2021) the maximum terms of pre -trial detention have passed.
The appeal judges had already excluded that the self-bombing was a fact of the mafia as any extortion relating to the acaparrement of agricultural land by Rosaria Mancuso and its family unit was excluded against the winnings of the Vinci-Scarpulla family and the bomb costing the life of the biologist Matteo Vinci is instead the result of a “violent contest between neighbors linked to the possession of an area of land that has lasted, worse. away, for years until the day of the dramatic explosion ».