“Illogical that De Stefano is among the” invisibles “of the ‘Ndrangheta”
This is what the Court of Cassation writes in the grounds for the “Gotha” ruling regarding the position of the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano, tried with the abbreviated rite and sentenced on appeal to 15 years and 4 months in prison.\
For the Cassation, the judges of the Court of Appeal were wrong to consider De Stefano “guilty also for the period after 2005 on the basis of conduct that is assumed to reveal his belonging to the secret component and which, however, being placed in the period covered as judged, they cannot be evaluated for this purpose “. “If the invisible structure – it is specified in the Cassation motivations – must be composed of subjects whose belonging to the ‘Ndrangheta is unknown to those who make up the visible and operational structure of the criminal association, in order to prevent the components of the invisible structure from being indicated as belonging to the criminal association from any collaborators of justice, it seems illogical to argue that Giorgio De Stefano could simultaneously be part of both the invisible structure and the visible and operational structure as head of the De Stefano clan “.