Admiral Felicio Angrisano, former commander of the Port Authority of Genoa and former general commander of the Port Authority, was acquitted in the appeal process on the location of the pilot tower in the port of Genoa, which collapsed on 7 May 2013 due to the impact of the cargo Jolly Nero causing nine dead
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Angrisano was present in the courtroom.
In the first instance he was sentenced to three years.
All the other defendants were also acquitted.
The deputy attorney general Enrico Zucca had asked for a sentence of 2 years and six months for Admiral Angrisano.
Absolution requested for Fabio Capocaccia, former Commissioner of the Port Autonomous Committee (2 years in first instance).
A one-year sentence has been requested for Angelo Spaggiari, structural engineer (1 year and 6 months), Paolo Grimaldi (2 years), and Mario Como, structural engineer (1 year and 6 months).
Confirmation after one year has been requested for Giovanni Lettich, from the Drivers' Guild.
The charges were manslaughter and manslaughter
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The defendants were defended, among others, by the lawyers Enrico Scopesi, Sabrina Franzone, Giuseppe and Chiara Sciacchitano, Andrea Vernazza, Ernesto Monteverde, Emanuele Olcese and Pietro Bogliolo.
The trial on the location and construction of the pilot tower was born on the initiative of Adele Chiello, mother of Giuseppe Tusa (military of the Captaincy), one of the victims, who had opposed the request for dismissal.
The woman has always maintained the danger of the location.
The main thread on the collapse had already reached the final sentence.
The harbor pilot Antonio Anfossi (4 years in the first grade) was acquitted and the acquittals for Giampaolo Olmetti, armament commander and third officer Cristina Vaccaro were confirmed.
The Cassation had ordered the reduction of sentences for the commander of the Jolly Nero Roberto Paoloni, for the ship's first officer Lorenzo Repetto and for the chief engineer Franco Giammoro.
The three agreed on the sentence with pg Zucca: Paoloni 7 years (9 years and 11 months), Repetto 5 years (8 years and 6 months) and Giammoro 4 years (7 years).
Repetto and the State Attorney's Office appealed to the Supreme Court.
"They are all guilty, how much is the life of a dead man worth? The powerful cannot be touched! The port of Genoa cannot be touched". This is how Adele Chiello, mother of Giuseppe Tusa, soldier of the harbor master's office, one of the victims
of the Pilot Tower after the reading of the sentence was shouted.
"The judges didn't have a son down there. They killed themselves."
"I have never commented and I do not today."
So Admiral Felicio Angrisano after the acquittal on appeal in the trial on the location of the pilot tower.
Angrisano, defended by the lawyers Carolina De Ferrari and Ernesto Monteverde, was acquitted with the formula "because the fact does not constitute a crime" like the other defendants.
After reading the statement, the admiral embraced, visibly moved, his lawyer who followed him for ten years.
Satisfied the defenders of Giovanni Lettich then head of the pilots of the port.
"We are happy for Commander Lettich because he was out of any possible involvement in this affair having done everything possible before, during and after the event - professor Sergio Carbone and lawyer Simone Vernazza underlined -.