Even the former mayor of Amatrice and current regional councilor of the Lega, Sergio Pirozzi , was acquitted by the judge of the Rieti court, Carlo Sabatini, as part of the trial for the collapse of one of the buildings in Piazza Augusto Sagnotti following the earthquake of Amatrice and Accumoli of 24 August 2016.
For the judge , the fact does not exist .
The remaining defendants were also acquitted together with Pirozzi: Ivo Carloni, Giovanni Conti, Maurizio Scacchi, Valerio Lucarelli and Gianfranco Salvatore. They were all accused of the crimes of negligent disaster and multiple negligent homicide .
The prosecutor Lorenzo Francia, at the end of the trial, had asked for 6 years of imprisonment for the engineer Ivo Carloni, 5 years for the two civil engineering officers, Valerio Lucarelli and Giovanni Conti, the acquittal for Pirozzi and for the engineer civil, Chess. Salvatore, on the other hand, was acquitted for the death of the accused.
" Justice has finally been done - commented Pirozzi's lawyer, Mario Cicchetti - after 4 and a half years of careful debate, during which all the tools to be able to decide in accordance with the truth were submitted to the Rieti court. has come to a fair sentence. For the former mayor Pirozzi, who has given so much to his community, it is certainly good news ".
(Unioneonline / D)
