Over a century of prison requested yesterday in court in Sassari for the 17 defendants in the "Piazza Pulita" investigation. The prosecutor Maria Paola Asara requested the convictions, in the summary proceedings, 16 months after the raid by the Carabinieri in via Leoncavallo in the Santa Maria district of Pisa at the end of investigations that lasted months.
The military had discovered a drug dealing center in the area and a trade in cocaine, heroin and methadone with earnings of 60 thousand euros per month and around 2600 recorded sales episodes.
The heaviest sentences - 13 years and 5 months - were requested for four people, two of whom, a couple, believed to be the masterminds of the activity , and two factotums. For traffic and dealing, these could count on a series of lookouts and pushers who made the sale possible.
The defendants are: Costantino Oggianu, Emanuela Immacolata Delogu, Samuele Cau, Roberto Salis, Roberto Giannichedda, Simon Pietro Cicu, Salvatore Piras, Antonio Spanu, Graziano Achenza, Salvatore Giuseppe Giannichedda, Nicola Chessa, Antonella Fadda, Michele Delogu, Vincenzino Canu, Antonio Vincenzo Salaris, Giuseppe Delogu, Sabrina Zedda.
The defense lawyers contested the prosecution's lack of evidence and requested acquittal for their clients. Defending the defendants are lawyers Maurizio Serra, Paolo Spano, Carlo Foddai, Claudio Mastandrea, Luigi Conti, Tina Lunesu, Vittorio Campus, Vilia Fiorillo. The preliminary hearing judge Sergio De Luca postponed the sentence until July.