October 12, 2017 a firefighter, a mayor, a municipality surveyor, a civil engineer, an electronic expert, two private technicians, an employee of the health company and a nightlife entrepreneur spent 3 and a half hours together in via Madonna del Piano in Corinaldo, outside Senigallia. They formed a supervisory commission and agreed on the suitability of a barn transformed into a nightclub for shows. Yesterday, the names of these people were read in court in Ancona, and formulas such as “acquittal for not having committed the crime” or “benefit of the conditional suspension of the sentence” were subsequently pronounced. They were accused of crimes such as multiple manslaughter and negligent disaster, for what happened one night six years ago, when a group of young robbers he triggered panic by spraying pepper spray, 5 children and a woman died in the crowdand since then the name of the place in question, Lanterna Azzurra, was forever associated with the word massacre.
The first degree trial of the so-called white collar workers did not end with all acquittals. Those who certified the false, such as Matteo Principi (former mayor of Corinaldo), Rodolfo Milani (firefighter), Francesco Gallo (Ausur), Massimiliano Bruni (expert), Stefano Martelli (local police), Massimo Manna (surveyor), and Francesco Tarsi (engineer), was found guilty, but will not go to prison thanks to the benefits of the law. The company that managed the Lanterna Azzurra, Magic Srl, will have to pay a fine of 90 thousand euros. On the other hand, not guilty of the most serious crimes led the Court to deny compensation to the victims’ families. “It’s a shame. She killed our children again”, said Fazio Fabini, father of Emma, 14, who died of suffocation. “They left us alone”, commented Paolo Curi, who lost his wife Eleonora.
The prosecutor’s office had asked for much more severe penalties and focused above all on two critical issues: that evening and as usual, three times as many people as allowed had been crammed inside the Blue Lantern. Then, the emergency exit where the tragedy occurred was not suitable for many aspects, which had been clearly visible for some time. In the indictment, the prosecutors said that the place was “a death trap”, that when trying to get out “people fell like butter”, forming “a human pyramid” and “dying in a pile”. The defense, however, gained points by leveraging procedural irregularities in the investigation.
Following other trials, four of the five partners of Magic Srl received sentences between 32 months and 6 years. Then, seven of the nine members of what was called the “spray gang” serve sentences of 10 to 12 years. The last of the necklaces taken at a Sfera Ebbasta concert that never took place was snatched from one of the trapped people
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