A fireworks party on Wednesday night
greeted the release of a prominent member of a Rome crime family
after he served a six-year sentence for headbutting an Italian
TV reporter and breaking his nose.
The Spada family pulled out all the stops to hail the release of
Roberto Spada, who was let out of Tolmezzo prison in northern
Italy on Friday.
In December 2018 a Rome appeals court upheld the six-year
prison term for Spada, a member of the notorious criminal
gang in the Rome seaside district of Ostia, for his brutal
attack
on a crew working for State broadcaster RAI the previous year.
The court confirmed that mafia methods were an aggravating
factor in the attack on reporter Daniele Piervincenzi, whose
nose was broken, and cameraman Edoardo Anselmi, who suffered
bruising to the back, on November 7, 2017.
The Spadas run drugs and protection rackets in Ostia, as well as
other mafia-style operations.
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