Ndrangheta: 'Cafè de Paris', Mafia accusation falls on appeal

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 16 - The accusation of the aggravating circumstance of the mafia-type association falls on appeal in the context of the trial on the affair that also involved the Café de Paris, the local historian of the dolce vita on which organized crime had put their hands . The judges of the III Criminal Section therefore acquitted and declared the statute of limitations for the 14 positions that had come to their examination. In the first instance, in April 2014, the judges had imposed sentences for a total of 40 years against people deemed to be affiliated with Ndrangheta groups who had come into possession, according to the allegations, of numerous commercial activities including the famous bardi via Veneto. Acquittal by prescription, among others, of Vincenzo Alvaro, his wife Grazia Palamara and DamianoVillari. Lawyer Fabrizio Gallo, who with his colleagues Matteo Cartolano and Tiziana Barillaro, defended the Alvaro family, commented stating that "the operation 'Cafè de Paris 'was not an operation against the' Ndrangheta, as newspapers around the world have headlined. Today the Court of Appeal ruled that the seized assets, including the Dolce Vita venue, had not been purchased with illicit money. acquittal of the aggravating mafia has caused the rest to collapse by prescription ". (HANDLE).