The prosecutor had even asked for 18 years in prison. For the prosecution, that night, it was attempted murder, the culmination of a real punitive expedition. The Finocchiaro gup has it sentenced yesterday afternoon to 12 years in prison for that multi-episode brawl which then resulted in a shootout in via Loggia dei Mercanti, behind Piazza Duomo, at the end of which a twenty-year-old was grazed in the right thigh by a gunshot. This is the 54-year-old NC (we publish the initials because one of the children, a minor, is also involved in the affair), who according to the reconstruction of the facts after the investigations of the Flying Squad that night, it was last May 24th, he intervened armed with a Beretta cal. 9×21 near a club, after his two children, one of whom is a minor, had had a serious argument with the twenty-year-old (one of them had attacked him with a beginner’s baseball bat).
There was old “rust” behind the wounding of the twenty-year-old, in the historic center, in the streets of the Messina nightlife. This was established by the Flying Squad’s investigations, which within a few days led to the resolution of the case. The 54-year-old ended up under house arrest, following the order of the investigating judge, while his 17-year-old son ended up in a detention facility for minors, following the order of the investigating judge of the Juvenile Court.
For the man the investigating judge, in validating the arrest, at the time changed the initially contested crime of attempted murder, possession and illegal possession of a firearm aggravated, in complicity, to injuries aggravated by the use of the weapon and the number of people. While the initial charge of attempted murder remained standing for the seventeen-year-old. The 54-year-old’s other son was also involved in the affair, but the legal paths of the two boys obviously diverged.
In recent months the Prosecutor’s Office had requested immediate proceedings for the 54-year-old, and yesterday morning the man’s lawyer, the lawyer Daniela Chillèformalized the choice to proceed with the summary judgment, which entails the “discount” of a third of the sentence.
