The trial against the former senator Tonino D'Alì returns to the Cassation
July 14, 2022

The trial against the former Trapanese senator Tonino D'Alì , accused of external competition in a mafia association, returns for the second time to the Supreme Court.

Already in January 2018, the proceedings against the former Undersecretary of the Interior (D'Alì held that office from 2001 to 2005) ended before the Supreme Court, on that occasion the judges annulled with postponement to a new appeal process, the sentence by which the former senator of Forza Italia was acquitted for the charges subsequent to 1993 and prescribed for the crimes contested for the previous period.

In July 2021, the Palermo Court of Appeal sentenced the former Trapani politician to six years in prison. The provision was read by the president of the college, judge Antonio Napoli, after a brief council chamber. The Attorney General, with the pg Rita Fulantelli, had asked for a sentence of 7 years and 4 months, while the defense had called for acquittal. In the meantime, D'Alì's lawyers have filed an appeal and now the Supreme Court has set the date of the hearing to be held on 11 October next .

In October 2021 the reasons with which the judges of the Court of Appeal of Palermo sentenced Antonio D'Alì to six years in prison for external competition in a mafia association were filed. The judges summarize in 138 pages the consolidated relationships with the Messina Denaro , from the old Don Ciccio, farmer of the D'Alì family lands, to his son Matteo, nowadays "red primrose".