Pescara: for the Court of Cassation the fines from the Via di Sotto speed camera were illegitimate

The Supreme Court of Cassation has definitively judged illegitimate the fines imposed by non-approved speed cameras such as the one that the centre-right had put in Via di Sotto, in the hills of Pescara, which had raised so much controversy to the exasperation of citizens, residents and non-residents alike.

“The sentence with which the Court of Cassation definitively judged illegitimate the fines imposed by non-approved speed cameras, such as the one that the centre-right had placed in Via di Sotto, demonstrates not only that we municipal and regional councilors of the PD and the appellant citizens were right , but that Mayor Masci and his council, after having snubbed our warnings which were based exactly on these assumptions, turned against the people of Pescara, taking them to court and also forcing them to pay their lawyers. It would be time for someone to apologize.” This was stated by the group leader of the PD in the City Council Piero Giampietro.

Many people are speaking on the sentence today: certainly citizens, residents and non-residents, exasperated by months of fines which we have also covered on our website. How can we forget the case of the motorist fined 8 times in a few days: a case, however, not isolated. Even the candidate for the mayor’s seat, Carlo Costantini, has his say today, retracing a long-standing affair that ended up in the Court of Cassation. After the Supreme Court ruling which deems the fines being imposed in Pescara to be illegitimate, speed cameras and T-red return to the center of the political debate in view of the municipal elections in June. For the centre-left mayoral candidate, Carlo Costantini, “these are excuses to put our hands in citizens’ pockets and pay debts generated by bad projects such as that of Viale Marconi”.

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“The lack of approval was exactly the point on which we asked the Masci council to stop – underlines Giampietro – and the council had therefore been warned of what was wrong, in our opinion, in the contract with the company that had rented the devices to the Municipality not approved. On the other hand, the jurisprudence of both legitimacy and substance has widely ruled on the need for the approval of speed detection equipment, just as the Highway Code leaves no interpretative doubts. The Municipality instead insisted on qualifying both the ‘approval that the approval of the equipment, making a mistake. No one in the center-right can therefore say they didn’t know. But in a frenzy of arrogance, the center-right decided not to listen, to impose over 20 thousand fines on the citizens of the Hills amounting to millions of euros, to take to court anyone who dared to appeal to the justice of the peace. A truly bad page for the institutions, especially since after a few months the speed camera was removed without any intervention to radically improve the safety of Via di Sotto, demonstrating that it was an ATM to finance, who knows, the black hole of Viale Marconi. Let’s be clear: this sentence is not a satisfaction, because behind the Via di Sotto affair there are families who ended up in difficulty having to pay dozens of fines received for having slightly exceeded 30 kilometers per hour, especially outside their homes. We expect at least that the Masci council will apologize to the people of Pescara for having sanctioned them completely illegitimately, despite the warnings of the PD and the committees, and then running away from the hills without any improvement to the road”.