(ANSA) - REGGIO CALABRIA, APRIL 22 - The prosecutor of the Reggio Calabria DDA Giulia Pantano asked for a 4-year sentence of imprisonment for Forza Italia senator Marco Siclari, among the defendants of the "Eyphemos" trial who chose the shortened rite. The trial was born from an investigation by the State Police against the clan of Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte. The parliamentarian is accused of mafia political electoral exchange.
According to the investigations, coordinated by the prosecutor Pantano and by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri and by the adjunct Gaetano Paci, the exponent of Forza Italia would have been supported by the Alvaro clan in the politics of 2018.
After having completed the indictment and rebuilt the accusatory system, the prosecutor asked for the condemnation of the politician of Villa San Giovanni who "accepted - it is written in the charge - through the intermediary Giuseppe Antonio Galletta, the promise to procure votes from Domenico Laurendi, belonging to the 'Ndrangheta di Santa Eufemia club of the Alvaro mafia family ". In exchange, two months after the elections, according to the DDA, the senator was interested in obtaining the transfer to Messina to an employee of the Post Office, daughter of an affiliate of the 'Ndrangheta.
The prosecutor also asked for the sentence for the other defendants who chose the shortened rite, asking for sentences ranging from 3 years and 8 months to 20 years of imprisonment. Among these also the alleged boss Domenico Laurendi, known as "Rocchellina", and the boss Cosimo Alvaro for whom the prosecutor asked respectively 20 years and 16 years in prison. Also requested an acquittal. (HANDLE).