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Sorrento coast, all defendants acquitted in the Sant'Agnello social housing case: 40 families saved from eviction

The ruling comes after almost eight hours of deliberation and is sensational: everyone was acquitted of the charges related to the construction of the social housing complex in Sant’Agnello, starting with the accusation of illegal land speculation that would have meant the confiscation of the property and the eviction of around forty families occupying it. The building complex has instead been unsequestrated, and the 53 families who purchased an apartment via Monsignor Bonaventura Gargiulo street from Shs srl of engineer Antonio Elefante – the master of the operation, the main defendant in the trial – can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no eviction, and the deposit of those who had paid the 30% advance, between 150,000 and 200,000 euros, is safe.

“The fact does not constitute a crime” for almost all of the charges and “does not exist” for some other charges leveled against the defendants to various titles of illegal land speculation and fraud. This was decided by the Court of Torre Annunziata presided over by Judge Emma Aufieri, overturning a precautionary judgment that had been solidified in several seizures, which appeared to be solid in favor of the public prosecutors. Within 90 days, the reasons will be stated.

An order for eviction was in place since October (suspended pending the ruling) based on several confirmations of the order for the seizure for illegal land speculation and the risk of increasing the urban load. There had been preparatory meetings at the Prefect’s office to organize the exit of the occupants in the least traumatic way possible. In the months before, tenants had staged public protests and demonstrations, accompanied by a mix of anger and resignation. It seemed as if their fate was sealed. Instead, the acquittal arrived, along with the joy of an entire town that had feared the worst: in Sant’Agnello, almost everyone had a friend or relative who had invested their savings in the social housing project. In the courtroom at the time of the verdict, there were about twenty tenants present; some wept with emotion after the ruling.

The public prosecutor Andreana Ambrosino had requested 3 years for Elefante, 1 year and 10 months for his partner, Massimiliano Zurlo, 2 years for Franco Ambrosio, former head of the technical office of the Municipality of Sant’Agnello, and 1 year and 8 months for Pietro Iaccarino, a functionary of the same public entity, and the confiscation of the property.

Instead, the defense team, led by lawyers Sartore and Cappiello, accepted the arguments of the legal team for Elefante. The former mayor Piergiorgio Sagristani and the former municipal administrators who had approved the resolutions leading up to the construction project had also exited the process early: they were accused only of abuse of office, a crime that had been abrogated by one of the reforms of Minister Nordio.

In the morning, engineer Elefante had ignited the anticipation of the ruling with a harsh post on social media. Elefante wrote of a "process artfully constructed… a land use process marked from the beginning by a multitude of errors, abuses and judicial abuses, aiming to criminalize a conduct and works carried out in perfect conformity with the laws and urban planning and building titles issued… marked by so many judicial abuses, omissions, attempts to recuse the judge of the preliminary hearing, alteration of the truth, false representations of the facts, attempts to pollute the testimony of the Technical Consultant, false statements made by the public prosecutor to the court, a report to the CSM…” It concluded with: “Despite the deep wounds inflicted on us, we remain confident in the victory of justice.”

The article Sorrento Coast, all acquitted for social housing in Sant’Agnello: 40 families saved from eviction comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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