Two life sentences but it was not a ‘Ndrangheta murder. The tobacconist from Reggio Calabria, Bruno Ielo, was not killed on the evening of May 25, 2017 at the hands of the Reggio Calabria gangs. The motive remains the uncomfortable commercial competition that the tobacconist, and former carabiniere, had triggered in the northern Reggio area. This was established by the Assize Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria which issued the sentence very late on Wednesday evening excluding the aggravating mafia charge.
The decision: life imprisonment for Francesco Polimeni and Francesco Mario Dattilo; sentence redetermined, after acquittal of the crime of extortion and unfair competition, for Cosimo Scaramuzzino sentenced to 22 years (compared to 30 in the first degree), and Giuseppe Antonio Giaramita, 9 years and 8 months of imprisonment (16 in the first degree). Giaramita was released from prison due to the expiry of the maximum terms of preventive precautionary custody. The defenders, lawyers Giacomo Iaria, Corrado Politi, Francesco Calabrese, Gianfranco Giunta and Marco Tullio Martino had previously argued.