Rome, the old boss Malagrotta Cerroni in the classroom: all acquitted acquitted

"It is clear to all that Rome, as the Italian and foreign press ruthlessly reminds us, has become an open-air dump and that Ama is close to Caporetto". Thus, the former owner of Malagrotta, Manlio Cerroni, expresses himself before the judges in the trial that sees him accused, as well as six other people, for criminal conspiracy aimed at illegal traffic of waste. "In spite of everything, I tried everything to propose to the authorities solutions to the degradation to keep Rome clean," continues Cerroni in the spontaneous statements made Monday in the clbadroom Occolesio de piazzale Clodio. And just from Piazzale Clodio, after eight hours of sitting in council, comes the verdict of the first degree: there has never been a criminal conspiracy to smuggle solid and urban waste in Rome and Lazio. The first criminal section of the Rome Court acquitted, for not having committed, Manlio Cerroni, former owner of the Malagrotta landfill, for presiding over and encouraging a criminal conspiracy enriched by the elimination of waste from the fifties in an absolute monopoly regime. Cerroni listened to the reading of the sentence and burst into tears, after kissing his lawyer, Alessandro Diddi's lawyer. "I have not asked for a price, but not worth it, after all that I've done in my life and for Rome that I loved so much, I will continue to do what I've done. I've always done, I want to die from work – added the old boss – I'm just trying to work, produce, do well because this country needs it.I know what we did , this country was amateur in 1944 and in 45 … "

The others acquitted

Acquittal also for the other accused, the former president of the Lazio region, Bruno Landi (for which the prosecutor Alberto Galanti had required five years imprisonment), then Francesco Rando, sole director of many companies attributable to the even Cerroni (asked five years). of prison), Luca Fegatelli, former head of the waste area of ​​the Lazio region, Giuseppe Sicignano, former supervisor of the operational activities of the Cecchina factories (sentenced to 4 years in prison), Raniero De Filippis, former head of the regional department from the region Lazio and Piero Giovi (request for acquittal), also business partner and historical collaborator of Cerroni. Extinguished for misdemeanors, such as illegal traffic in waste and fraud in public supplies. Alberto Galanti, in the indictment of March 9 last, was voiced for absolution only for Giovi.

Asked for him for 6 years

"I am shocked," he said, recalling the current account entry he had been subjected to last July, "and my mind and spirit are troubled by bad thoughts of rebellion and loud protests to raise public awareness at the highest level. the damage caused … not just to me, "he concluded.The Rome prosecutor had asked for six years in prison for Cerroni, accusing six other people of being charged for years of poor management of the waste cycle in the capital.

The pm: "Omerta and control of the territory"

"The infiltration of the group headed by Manlio Cerroni has arrived everywhere.It has determined the emergency situation with regard to waste and he has proposed it as the only solution," had pointed out at the time of the 39, indictment of Mr Alberto Galanti. "We are in the presence of a system that has one foot in the middle of the 416 bis – he added – in which the silence, the control of territory and institutions served to maintain the power of the group".