The prison sentence was confirmed yesterday by the Court of Appeal in Sassari for the two Spanish citizens, originally from South America, accused of drug trafficking in Alghero . Yesterday the panel, presided over by Judge Claudia Sechi, with Paolo Bulla and Sara Pelicci on the side, deemed it appropriate to validate the stay in Bancali of the two, a 47-year-old and a 55-year-old, who were stopped by State Police officers in the Catalan city on April 28 because they were suspected of having passed cocaine to a third person, a 65-year-old resident in Spain.

On that occasion the police had seized 200 grams of cocaine, 22 thousand euros in cash and later discovered that the trio had several cell phones in their possession. The two had justified themselves by saying that they were in Alghero for tourism reasons and that they had nothing to do with the sale of narcotics.

The third figure would have exonerated the other two by claiming to have received the drugs in Sassari. The lawyers Elisabetta Sotgia, Ignazia Maria Antonella Spanu and Giuseppe Onorato are defending the two.