The Court of Appeal of Catanzaro, the third criminal section, with sentence of 26 March last overturned the first instance sentence, carrying out the mayor Antonio Pomilillo with the accusation of aggravated defamation with a full formula following a lawsuit presented by a former administrator and relating to the Royal Web affair.
Full formula: the fact does not exist
This is what the municipal administration says expressing great satisfaction for the reform on the merits by the Court of Appeal of Catanzaro. The college judgmental, composed of the president Antonio Giglio and the councilors Carlo Fontanazza and Barbara Saccà, has put an end to the discussed affair with a sentence that leaves no room for doubt: “The fact does not exist”.
Pomillo: I only told my people’s facts
I express deep satisfaction for this sentence that restores the truth of the facts – adds the mayor – and puts order within a story in which, as a maximum representative of my community, I felt the duty to publicly and with courage facts and circumstances. I am satisfied because the measure accepted defensive arguments in full, reforming an unfair measure and highlighting the total groundlessness of the accusations made against me.
Totally reformed condemnation
The affair originated from a communication to the 2019 citizenship in relation to the granting of a sports field to the Royal Web company by the previous municipal management that administered the Municipality from 2004 to 2014. A former administrator, therefore, considering himself offended, believed to protrude a lawsuit for aggravated defamation, on which the Court of Castrovillari expressed himself by considering the first citizen responsible and condemning him to 2 months of relevance ( suspended penalty) as well as the payment of procedural costs and compensation for damages. The mayor had interposed to the sentence, contesting all responsibility and invoking the right of political criticism. The requests of the defense of the mayor Pomillo were accepted in full by the College which, in the annual the sentence of the Criminal Court of Castrovillari, ascertained the innocence of the mayor, also canceled the unfair compensation of the damage recognized at first instance to that former administrator declared a injured party.