Extortion and substitution of person.

These are the crimes for which Luca Morini, former parish priest of the diocese of Massa Carrara, who the faithful had nicknamed Don Euro for the ease with which he asked for sums of money, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

Today the trial of first instance in front of the court of Massa has closed.

The former religious, reduced to the lay state following the scandal, was instead acquitted for the crime of transferring drugs and self-laundering, as well as for the charge of extortion against a nun and for the crime of substitution. in person about an episode with an escort.

THE CONDEMNATION - According to the accusations that led to his conviction, he would have pretended to be a magistrate with his other alleged lovers. He would also have become the protagonist of an alleged extortion against his former bishop of Massa Carrara, Monsignor Giovanni Santucci.

The prosecutor had asked for eight and a half years of imprisonment, the defense of the former priest for absolution, after having recognized Morini's semi-mental infirmity. However, his lawyer Giovanna Barsotti explains, "since there were also aggravating circumstances, it was considered equivalent".

Four escorts have constituted civil parties to whom the court has recognized a total of 14 thousand euros in damages.

(Unioneonline / D)