The Zagaria brothers acquitted: Pasquale, Carmine and Antonio were accused of extortion. Brothers of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, and for Filippo, Raffaele and Francesco Capaldo , nephews of the boss (they are the children of Beatrice Zagaria), and for the other three defendants Ciro Benenati, Pasquale Fontana and Nicola Diana.
The Attorney General had asked for sentences of six to 14 years in prison for all, but the appellate magistrates shared the approach of the defendants of the accused, who were betting on the unreliability of Battaglia, which emerged from the statements of the repentant Massimiliano Caterino, former right arm of the boss Michele Zagaria, who had told that Battaglia was a friend of the Zagaria brothers so much that he also took part in the wedding of Carmine Zagaria.