Roma stadium in Tor di Valle, De Vito and Lanzalone acquitted on appeal

The judges of the third section of the Rome Appeal have essentially overturned the first instance ruling in the proceedings linked to the Tor di Valle Stadio della Roma which was to be built. The former president of the Capitoline assembly Marcello De Vito (who had been sentenced to 8 years and 8 months), the lawyers Camillo Mezzacapo (9 years in first instance) and Luca Lanzalone (3 years) were acquitted. For the entrepreneur Luca Parnasi the sentence drops to three months from the two years of the first degree. Gianluca Bardelli and Giuseppe Statuto were also acquitted. For Giulio Centemero, former treasurer of the League, and Andrea Manzoni the intervening prescription was recognized.

The sentence for Andriano Palozzi has been redetermined from one year and 10 to 8 months.

"There is great happiness, today justice has finally been done. They have been 7 very hard years, after eight months of detention while I was the president of the Capitoline assembly in Rome as the most voted citizen", says Marcello De Vito. "Seven years that destroyed my political and professional life, but my family was fundamental. I want to say a word for the two lawyers, Angelo di Lorenzo and Guido Cardinali, who did a sensational job, today a nightmare, an ordeal ends. A great satisfaction against those who had condemned me and in particular my former party colleagues who had left me for dead."

At first instance, Francesco Bonifazi, former treasurer of the Democratic Party, Gianluca Talone, Domenico Petrolo, Fortunato Pititto, Fabio Serini, Claudio Santini, Francesco Prosperetti, Davide Bordoni and former regional councilor Michele Civita were acquitted.