ITALIAN CASSATION SENTENCE
In Frauenfeld it was not 'ndrangheta. And now?
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 2ND 2019 22.5002 DECEMBER 2019 - 22:50

CC type video with 'Carabinieri di Reggio Calabria' logo showing some men discussing around a table
The images that made the Frauenfeld cell known.

(RSI-SWI)
The device of the sentence with which the Italian Court of Cassation on Friday declared that the organization discovered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, was not a 'ndrangheta cell was made public. The sentences to the presumed bosses Antonio Nesci and Raffaele Albanese have thus fallen. The TG of the RSI has spoken of it with the president of the Italian parliamentary anti-mafia Commission Nicola Morra.

"The judgments are respected", begins Morra, shifting the reflection on the methods of organized crime that change - with time, corruption has taken the place of intimidation - so as to fall more easily in the article of the Italian Criminal Code on mafia-type association (416 bis).

A video like the one shot in Frauenfeld, in which the suspects talk about weapons, drugs and extortion, is not enough: there is no evidence of the intimidating power exercised over the surrounding community.

In reality, as recalled by the head of the judicial chronicle of the CSR Francesco Lepori, the acquittal of Nesci and Albanese does not put an end to the story: the positions of nine defendants arrested in Switzerland, extradited and convicted at first instance in Italy remain open.

Meanwhile, questions are being asked about the strategy of the Swiss authorities to provide Italy with all the necessary elements so that the Calabrian investigators could guarantee a conviction. At present, Lepori estimates, it was the best feasible.


(1)Interview with Nicola Morra and analysis by Francesco Lepori after the Cassation sentence on the alleged Frauenfeld bosses

In the deepening of CSR, the interview with Nicola Morra and the analysis of Francesco Lepori

The fact

The first section of the Italian Court of Cassation canceled Friday, without postponement, the sentence to 14 of imprisonment issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria for the crime of mafia association against Antonio Nesci.

The seventy year old native of Fabrizia, Vibo Valentia, was accused of belonging to a 'ndrangheta cell discovered in Frauenfeld, Turgovia, as part of the' Helvetia 'operation conducted by the Reggio Calabria district anti-mafia division. The investigators had identified him as "head and promoter of the association". The 75-year-old Raffaele Albanese was also sentenced to 12 years.

As a result of the Cassation sentence, Nesci - who was detained under the 41-bis (hard prison) regime - was immediately released from prison. Albanese, who was under house arrest, is released again.
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