The ordinary vein of the trial on the destruction of corpses that took place within the municipal cemetery of Tropea ended with two convictions. The Court of Vibo, agreeing with the accusatory prospect, sentenced Francesco Trecatemunicipal employee of the ex custodian of the cemetery, e his son Salvatore respectively to 5 years of imprisonment and interdiction perpetual from public offices, and 3 years and 6 months and interdiction for 5 years from public offices. The prosecutor Concettina Iannazzoat the end of his indictment, he had asked for 5 years and 6 months for both defendants defended by the lawyer Giuseppe Di Renzo. The civil party is the Municipality of Tropea represented by the lawyer Michele Accorinti. The judge also rejected the request for provisional requests requested by the lawyer of the local authority by condemning the two trecate to pay the legal fees and compensation for the damage to be paid separately. A third accused, Roberto Contartesehas already been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months after a process celebrated with abbreviated rite.
The investigation was born on the basis of another survey and led to discover a illegal system of extumulation of corpses, especially of people who had no relatives in the area. Conducts whose beginning the investigators traced back to July 2019. It was the installation, in October last year, of a camera in a square of the cemetery where the three suspects carried out the activities, to bring concrete elements to the investigation after some reports that in the previous summer had activated the attention of the Guardia di Finanza. In February 2021 the finance blitz spoke.
The three suspects would have in particular violated twenty -six tombs in which the corpses of identified and non -identified subjects were buried, With the aggravating circumstance of having committed the fact with abuse of the powers and in violation of the duties deriving from the role of cemetery custodian for Francesco Trecate. Seven corpses that would have been completely or partially destroyed after being sectioned with the help of a saw and a hammer and then burned. Practices that on some occasions the same yellow flames have managed to film and document with hidden cameras.