All eight defendants accused of illegal building and unauthorized subdivision were acquitted because the act did not constitute a crime in the first ruling issued after one of the many investigations opened by the Milan Prosecutor's Office into urban planning, namely the case of the Torre Milano skyscraper on Via Stresa. Judge Paola Braggion ruled. Prosecutor Marina Petruzzella had requested eight convictions and the confiscation of the tower. A round of applause erupted in the courtroom from some of the defendants present.
For all, the subjective element of the crime is lacking, whether intentional or negligent, given that only in recent years have criminal and administrative jurisprudence and even the rulings of the Constitutional Court
More recent ones have offered different interpretations of the concept of "building renovation", wrote the Court of Milan, in a note signed by the president Fabio Roia, to explain, before the filing of the reasons, the ruling in the Torre Milano case.
"The consolidated practice of the Municipality of Milan", it states, "allowed the Torre Milano intervention with the permit actually issued to OPM srl", i.e. with a Scia.
"What really saddened me was the verbal violence used by the prosecutors in supporting the accusations," said Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, commenting on the sentence. Sala then said he had two reasons for his disappointment: "The first is having seen people close to me, whose honesty I am absolutely certain, attacked. I'll name former councilor Tancredi, whose career and stability were somewhat ruined. And then the second thing: a constant use of adjectives, a need to corroborate their arguments with words aimed at discrediting our actions."
(Unioneonline)
