The collaborator of justice Diego Zappia was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment for criminal association of a mafia type. The sentence was issued at the conclusion of the trial with an abbreviated procedure before the judge of Reggio Calabria, Francesco Campagna. The trial against Zappia resulted from an investigation by the deputy prosecutor of the Dda Sara Amerio following the statements made by the repentant himself after his arrest for the murder of Giuseppe Canale, the boss of Gallico di Reggio Calabria killed on 12 August of 2011. Zappia, for the murder of Canale, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Regarding the mafia association, Zappia had been acquitted in the “Erinni” trial, but his statements led to new accusations against him. In front of the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and the prosecutor Amerio, in fact, the repentant admitted that he was "affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta" and that he was "formally baptized between 2008 and 2009".
Furthermore, in his lands of Castellace, Oppido Mamertina and Lubrichi, Zappia, between 2010 and 2011, allegedly hosted, according to the accusation against him by the Dda of Reggio, "meetings of 'Ndrangheta aimed at planning and planning the murder of Giuseppe Canale" .