Saint Pauline
by Paola Iandolo
Renato Freda’s sentence of two years, two months and twenty daysalready convicted in the trial of the New Clan Partenio. Absolution For Massimo Evangelista with the formula “for not having committed the crime”. Reasons within ninety days. Thus ended the summary trial for the threats to the prosecution witness in the trial of the New Partenio Clan, Afonso Gnerre. The public prosecutor of the DDA of Naples, Anna Frasca had requested that the two defendants be sentenced to two years and six months in prison before the Gup Logozzo for Renato Freda and Massimo Evangelista, accused of obstruction of justice aggravated by the mafia method for the story of the alleged threats to the witness Alfonso Gnerre who was supposed to testify in the courtroom against the accused Carlo Dello Russo.
The discussions
The lawyers Gaetano Aufiero and Patrizio Dello Russo, defenders of the two defendants, have requested acquittal for their clients. The lawyer Gaetano Aufiero had requested the acquittal of his client and also the transmission of the documents to the Prosecutor’s Office relating to what Gnerre reported in the courtroom for the hypothesis of the crime of slander.
The accusations
According to what was reported by Gnerre on two separate occasions and in the middle of the preliminary investigation phase of the criminal association, called Nuovo Clan Partenio, the two who ended up on trial would have approached Gnerre, a witness-victim of usury, threatening him and ordering him not to appear at the hearing if mentioned. They would have suggested that he testify falsely in favor of the defendants. In the first circumstance Gnerre had been threatened inside a service area, where he would have been approached by Evangelista, the second by Freda in a shop in Prata.
