The three carabinieri were accused by a colleague of being "paid by the secessionist clan", and today the panel B of the first section of the Court of Naples acquitted them with the formula "the fact does not exist".
The corporals Giuseppe Lisco, Andrea Corciulo and Giuseppe Costanzo, at the time of the contested facts on duty at the Naples-Marianella carabinieri station, had been accused of aggravated corruption after the statements made by one of their colleagues, vice brigadier Mario Tomarchio, who reported that, like him, the three corporals were also paid by the Secondigliano secessionist clan. An accusation that Tomarchio retracted, during a hearing of the trial dating back to April 4th two years ago (2019), during which he stated that he had made it all up to obtain a reduction in sentence: "those three carabinieri did not take a penny from the clan", he said.
Former vice brigadier Tomarchio, on the other hand, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison and was called by the DDA investigators to testify at the trial for aggravated corruption. Today the sentence, and above all the formula with which they were acquitted, rehabilitates the three carabinieri. The acquittal had also been requested by the deputy prosecutor of Naples Vincenza Marra. "Today, for these three innocent Carabinieri, a nightmare that lasted 12 years comes to an end", said the lawyer for the military, Bruno Cervone, after the reading of the sentence.
“We have always reiterated and demonstrated,” added the lawyer, “during the trial, our innocence by providing documentary, objective and unequivocal rebuttals to the accusations leveled against my clients.” “Just think that,” added Cervone, “at the end of the trial, it was the Prosecutor’s Office itself that asked for acquittal. I am very happy for my clients and I hope they can soon find the serenity they lost for having lived, as innocents, an interminable nightmare that lasted more than a decade.”
A nightmare that began twelve years ago, when one of their colleagues, the vice brigadier Mario Tormarchio, accused them of being in the pay of the Camorra and, in particular, paid by the clan of the secessionists of the Secondigliano neighborhood in Naples, as he had been for some time.
It all started with the accusations of Tomarchio, arrested and sentenced to 12 years for aggravated corruption. He had said that like him, three of his colleagues (the corporals Giuseppe Lisco, Andrea Corciuolo and Giuseppe Costanzo) also took money from the Amato-Paganos in exchange for tip-offs. But during the hearing on April 4, 2019, he retracted every accusation he had made, saying that he had done so because he thought he would get a reduction in sentence.
Article published on March 4, 2021 - 19pm
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