«Raggi's Roma like Ciancimino's Palermo», Sgrabi convicted of defamation

Vittorio Sgarbi convicted of defamation against the former mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi.

The single judge of Rome sentenced the Undersecretary for Culture of the Meloni Government to a fine of 2 thousand euros, also ordering a provisional amount of 20 thousand euros against the former Capitoline mayor.

The story dates back to February 2018. During a TV broadcast Sgarbi lashed out against the hypothesis of demolishing an Art Nouveau villa in Piazza Caprera, in the Trieste district, he defined the management of the city as "Ciancimino's Palermo", the former mayor Christian Democrat convicted of mafia and among the main architects of the so-called "sack of Palermo", the building boom that occurred between the 1950s and 1960s which revolutionized the architectural physiognomy of the Sicilian capital.

In particular Sgarbi said: «The announced destruction of Art Nouveau villas in Rome, denounced by me and Italia Nostra first, confirms the most disturbing of perspectives: today's Rome is like Ciancimino's Palermo and the mayor of Rome, distracted from the defense of the city, is objectively complicit in this criminal action. M5s in Rome today is like the Christian Democrats in Palermo in the 70s."

The Rome prosecutor had requested a 4-month prison sentence for the undersecretary.

(Unioneonline/L)

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