They were accused of having threatened and pulled some penitentiary police officers at the Agrigento prison to prevent them from taking two prisoners into solitary confinement. The single judge of the Agrigento court, Fulvia Veneziano, ordered the acquittal “because the fact does not exist” against six prisoners.
At the end of the hearing, the court accepted the defense arguments of the lawyers Giovanni Castronovo, Salvatore Cusumano, Giuseppe Buongiorno and Cristina Alfieri, deeming that no evidence of conduct that could be classified as resistance to a public official had emerged. Specifically, the preliminary investigation would have demonstrated the erroneousness of the challenge raised by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Agrigento since the disciplinary sanction in question was regularly applied against the two prisoners. Furthermore, the threats uttered by all the prisoners were expressed to a person other than the actual recipient, thus eliminating the evidence that they had actually been received with consequent disturbance to the same.
