In the criminal system that emerged in the Mondo di mezzo trial, the Court of Cassation - maintains in a note anticipating the reasons for the sentence - "without denying that criminal phenomena may exist on the territory of Rome" notes that "the evidentiary results led to denying the existence of a mafia-type criminal association ". What has been ascertained "is an overall picture of a severely polluted 'system', not by fear, but by the public service goods".
"A part of the municipal administration has in fact surrendered itself to the interests of the criminal group which has found fertile ground to cultivate". The Cassation explains it in the note that anticipates the reasons for the verdict of the 'ermines' who last October lightened the position of the defendants of the 'Middle world' trial, including the ras of the cooperatives Salvatore Buzzi and the ex Nar Massimo Carminati , excluding the aggravating mafia.
"What has been ascertained - continues the note - is a phenomenon of generalized, widespread and systemic collusion, the core of which was the criminal association that managed the interests of Buzzi cooperatives through division mechanisms in the management of the contracts of the Municipality of Rome and the entities that belonged to this ". "This led - concludes the Cassation - to the devaluation of the public interest, sacrificed to logics of hoarding for the benefit of private individuals". "The facts also" tell "of entrepreneurs who have accepted a logic professed by Buzzi and his associates, based on the corrupt agreements between public officials and entrepreneurs, converging towards mutual economic benefits". Emphasizes the Cassation. "In the end, the criminal responsibility of almost all the accused was confirmed for a series of serious crimes against the public administration, as well as for the participation in the criminal associations, reaffirming the previous merit decisions in these respects". As evidence of this, the ermines explain that the annulment with postponement of the appeal, obtained by "some defendants", was determined "by the need for a new judgment on liability for crimes against the public administration, while" in the majority of the cases, however, from the need to carry out a restatement of the sentence following the exclusion of the mafia character of the two criminal associations. "One devoted to extortion, the other led by Buzzi and Carminati dealt with bribing Capitoline politicians and officials.