So thundered that it rained. Even in criminal proceedings. And for both. Marzio Strassoldo and Italo Tavoschi were convicted of the pre-electoral pact which, once revealed by the Messaggero Veneto, caused the collapse of the newly-arrived from the professor, referring to the polls to all Palace Belgrado.La ruling was issued yesterday afternoon by single judge of the Court of Udine Daniel Faleschini: six months and twenty days for both, with the benefits of suspended sentences.
were accused in having offered the competition or at least promised a benefit in exchange for any electoral support. It was the signing of the agreement signed between the two February 20, 2006, fifty days before the election for the Province, in violation of Article 86 of the Consolidated Law on the composition and election of the organs of local administration. A hypothesis of "crime" on which the prosecutor had asked Annunziata Puglia yesterday sentenced to a year for two months and one year for Strassoldo Tavoschi.
On 23 September 2007, our newspaper revealed the existence of the pact that committed the presidential candidate to ensure a professional job to the former deputy mayor for a total of € 210,000, in exchange for the support of the provincial election.
Yesterday the two accused have attended the trial celebratio with the expedited, "on paper" and then: sitting three chairs away, have left talk to their lawyers and have not consented to the presence of journalists in the courtroom. So he's left alone Strassoldo attaching to the phone, while Tavoschi left the court accompanied by his defenders, lawyers and Angela Di Marco Antonio Rigo.
No witness at the trial, therefore, only the normative evaluation of defendants for a fact that was disputed and could not be an offense. The professor from Bologna Marco Zanotti, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Udine, Venice and lawyer Antonio Franchini had therefore requested the acquittal of Strassoldo, as well as the defenders of Tavoschi.
A separate chapter is also reserved the terms of the prescription, which the defenders could be applied in accordance with a ruling of the Supreme Court in 2008.
Guido Surza Messenger September 22, 2009
