Three convicted over anti-Expo May Day (2)

(ANSA) - Milan, June 14 - A Milan judge on Tuesday convicted three people in a fast-track trial related to the violence that erupted during protests against Milan Expo 2015 on its opening day, May 1, 2015. The most serious charges, that of committing 'devastation', only held for one of the defendants, Andrea Casieri, who was sentenced to three years and eight months in jail. A fourth defendant was acquitted of all charges and released from house arrest. Edoardo Algardi and Niccolò Ripani got, respectively, two years and two months, and one year and eight months, on charges of resisting arrest.