Acquitted because the fact does not constitute a crime: this is the decision of the first criminal section of the Court of Naples against the jeweler Giuseppe Castaldo who, on 7 October 2015 in Herculaneum, armed with a legally detained pistol, fired six shots at the two components of a gang of robbers , Luigi Tedeschi and Bruno Petrone, aged 51 and 53 respectively, killing them instantly.
The same Prosecutor had solicited the acquittal for the jeweler, who ended up on trial on charges of excessive self-defense.
Castaldo, 68 at the time of the events, had just withdrawn five thousand euros that day from a credit institution near the excavations of Herculaneum when the two men, riding a scooter and armed with a fake gun but without the red cap that allowed his recognition , they ordered him to hand over the money. At that point Castaldo pulled out his pistol and fired while the thugs held him under theirs. Both robbers died instantly.
The four accomplices of Tedeschi and Petrone (members of a band of professionals) were identified and arrested in a short time: they are Salvatore Esposito, Antonio Corvo, Addolorata Esposito and Ernesto Labagnara. The trial with shortened procedure against them ended, one year after the events, with the sentence of six years of imprisonment for all the defendants.
The video surveillance system of the bank where the jeweler had gone filmed both the two robbers and the "stake". A phone call from the latter to his accomplices gave way to the robbery which ended in a tragic way.
(Unioneonline / L)
