Confirmation of Chiara Appendino's 18-month prison sentence was requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office during the appeal process underway in Turin for the events in Piazza San Carlo.
The parliamentarian of the 5 Star Movement is called into question for her role as mayor of the Piedmontese capital for what happened on the evening of 3 June 2017, when a series of waves of panic among the crowd present in the square to follow the Champions League final on a big screen resulted in more than 1,500 injuries and later the deaths of two women.
The same penalty was proposed for the then head of cabinet Paolo Giordana.
The indictment by the Attorney General, Carlo Maria Pellicano, is still ongoing and concerns the other defendants in the trial.
