Three men were found guilty Monday of
taking part in an assault on the Rome headquarters of Italian
trade union CGIL on October 9, 2021 when an anti-Green Pass
COVID certificate protest was hijacked by members of the
far-right Forza Nuova (FN, New Force) movement.
The three are not FN members.
The preliminary hearings judge (GUP), at the end of a trial
carried out in abridged form, imposed six years on Andrea
Savaia, a 54-year-old Genoese and four years on two Romans,
37-year-old Maurizio Ciocca and Daniel De Filippis.
Against Savaia, who is linked to the no green pass movement, the
prosecutor charged him with the crimes of devastation and
resistance to a public official, while the other two were only
charged with devastation.
For this affair, the Ligurian activist had been placed under
house arrest, while the two Romans were subjected to a
surveillance order.
Last July a Rome judge handed down the first six guilty verdicts
in the assault on the headquarters of CGIL, Italy's biggest and
most leftwing union, in Rome in October the previous year.
The attack was led by FN members who hijacked the protest
against the COVID-19 Green Pass health certificate to ransack
the union offices.
A preliminary hearings judge gave out sentences ranging from six
years to four and a half years.
The son of the girlfriend of FN's Rome chief Giuliano
Castellino, Fabio Corradetti, and the group's Palermo leader
Massimiliano Ursino, both got six years.
Castellino is also a defendant in the case, as is FN national
leader Roberto Fiore.
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