Confirm the first degree life sentence for Nicola Cannone. This was the request of the prosecution in the assize court of appeal yesterday morning, at the trial for the murder of the butcher Giuseppe Abbate, who had nothing to do with the Barcelona mafia. He was killed before the eyes of his son on February 16, 1998, along the street of S. Antonio, in Barcelona, ten minutes after eight in the evening, as he was closing the shop to go home. And it was pronounced by the deputy general prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, who reconstructed the context of this execution and the motivations for Cannone, the “killer without a warrant”, before the panel presided over by judge Carmelo Blatti, with his colleague Daria Orlando at his side. The lawyer Alessandro Imbruglia then spoke in the courtroom, representing the victim’s wife and son, a civil party in the proceedings, associating himself with the request for a life sentence for Cannone. Then it was the turn of the defendant’s defender, the lawyer Rosolino Ulizzi from Palermo. And the trial has been postponed for any replies and the final decision until July 7th.
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