Five convictions and one acquittal for the six defendants judged in summary proceedings and involved in the investigation into the exploitation of workers in the Paoletti group’s supermarkets.
In particular, the preliminary hearing judge of the Court of Catanzaro sentenced: the entrepreneur Paolo Paoletti, from Soverato, to 7 years, 9 months, 10 days and 4,733 fine; the trade unionist Vito Doria, resident in Satriano, given a suspended sentence of 1 year and 4 months; Vittorio Fusto, resident in Girifalco, 2 years and 10 months, 3,800 fine; Tiziana Nisticò, from Satriano, 3 years, 2 months, 26 days and 1,067 euro fine and Anna Valentino, resident in Soverato, 4 years, 11 months, 16 days and 2,733 fine. The only acquitted was Rosario Paoletti Martinez.
The defendants were also sentenced to compensate the civil parties formed, the CGIL, the Filcams Cgil Calabria, the national Filcams Cgil and 47 workers, represented, among others, by the lawyers Giuseppe Mussari, Angelo Montoro, Salvatore Giunone, Paolo Carnuccio, Alice Piperissa, Lucrezia Staiano, Livio Muscatiello, Vincenzo Larocca, Francesco Mancuso and Vittorio Ranieri. The defendants were defended by lawyers Sergio Rotundo, Helenio Cartaginese, Giuseppe Partenopei, Giuseppe Fonte, Vincenzo Vaiti, Domenico Cortese, Mario Sinopoli, Francesco Gambardella and Aldo Casalinuovo.