Eighteen years each for the three defendants. These are the requests of prosecutors Francesco Cascini and Francesco Minisci for the death of «Ciccio Barbuto», Francesco Vitalethe PR man of Bari origins who died on 22 February 2022 after falling from a window on the fifth floor of a Magliana palace in an attempt to escape from those who had kidnapped and tortured him for a drug debt of 500 thousand euros. There is a trial with an abbreviated trial (and relative reduction of a third of the sentence). Daniele Fabrizio, Sergio Placidi and Ilaria Valentinetti, who took turns for the prosecution in the role of jailers and are responsible for kidnapping for the purpose of extortion with the aggravating circumstance of death.
The kidnapping
For at least The 45-year-old remained locked up for 12 hours in the apartment in via Pescaglia. «Sergione” And “Saccottino», in particular, they would have acted on behalf of third parties in debt collection that Vitale originally had with Elvis Demce, the heir of Fabrizio «Diabolik» Piscitelli, even if the instigator of the kidnapping remained unknown. To get that amount back, the kidnappers also contacted the Vitale’s family after kidnapping him in the street, saying that otherwise they would kill him.
