The requests for harsh sentences from prosecutor Rossana Allieri (Cagliari DDA) in the trial (underway in Tempio Pausania) against the alleged members of a gang that until 2018 operated on the island, organizing a vast cocaine trafficking network and, above all, gathering men and weapons for attacks on armored vans (which never took place), including in Tuscany and Corsica.
The prosecutor's charges include criminal conspiracy aimed at international drug trafficking and the trafficking and possession of common and war weapons, the organization of robberies and assaults on vaults and cash-in-transit vans, and the sale of counterfeit banknotes.
The highest sentence was requested for the Loculi farmer, Giovanni Mercurio, believed to be the key figure in the alleged organization. Prosecutor Allieri concluded her closing argument by asking for a 24-year prison sentence.
A 13-year sentence was requested for Corso Jean Louis Cucchi, as was the same sentence for Marco Davide Ledda, from Alà dei Sardi. The other requests range from 2 to 12 years in prison. According to the Anti-Mafia Directorate, the gang (active in Olbia, Loculi, Santadi, Castiadas, Portovecchio, and Fauglia, in Tuscany) allegedly planned, but failed to carry out, robberies at Mondialpol headquarters in Cecina and Elmas with the alleged support of members of Campania's organized crime group. Now the defense (including lawyers Mario Perticarà, Jacopo Merlini, Angela Corda, and Lia Deiana) will speak.
