Caserta. Second acquittal for the engineer Pietro Esposito Acanfora accused of killing the mayor of the municipality of Cervino in the province of Caserta. Faced with a request for a 14-year sentence requested by the Attorney General of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Naples, the engineer Esposito Acanfora, head of the technical office of the Municipality of Cervino, was acquitted. He had ended up on trial for the death of the mayor Giovanni Piscitelli, killed almost eleven years ago. The engineer, defended by the lawyers Carlo Destavola and Rocco Trombetti, had been acquitted in the first instance, he has always declared himself innocent of this crime, a circumstance also reiterated in the appeal trial. The body of the then mayor of Cervino was found in February 2008 a few meters away from his car set on fire. He had managed to get out of the vehicle to try to save himself, but the burns gave him no escape. Both the victim's family and the Municipality of Cervino had joined the civil action in the first hearing of the trial. "After ten years, we hope that it has been definitively clarified that Engineer Esposito had nothing to do with this tragedy," commented attorney Trombetti.
Article published on November 26, 2019 - 15:27
