Ercolano, jeweler who killed robbers in Naples acquitted. In 2015 he opened fire on two armed bandits riding scooters.
The first criminal section of the Court of Naples (judge Antonia Napolitano Tafuri) acquitted – because the act does not constitute a crime – the jeweler Giuseppe Castaldo who, on 7 October 2015 in Ercolano, armed with a legally held pistol, opened fire on two members of a gang of robbers, Luigi Tedeschi and Bruno Petrone, killing them instantly.
The Naples Public Prosecutor's Office (additional prosecutor Raffaello Falcone, substitute prosecutor Ernesto Sassano) had requested the case be closed and, during the trial, Castaldo's acquittal.
During the hearing, which began around 15:XNUMX p.m., the civil party's lawyer Renato D'Antuono and the defendant's lawyer Maurizio Capozzo spoke first, with Capozzo asking for an acquittal, emphasizing that Castaldo acted in self-defense.
The then secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, also intervened in the affair, which caused a stir and controversy, siding with the accused: "I'm with the jeweler", wrote the new Minister of Infrastructure of the Government led by Giorgia Meloni on social media.
Castaldo (defended by the lawyer Maurizio Capozzo and who ended up on trial for excessive self-defense), that day, had just withdrawn five thousand euros from a bank near the Herculaneum excavations when the two victims, riding a scooter and armed with a fake gun but without the red cap of recognition, ordered him to hand over the money.
At that point Castaldo pulled out his gun and shot while the criminals held him at gunpoint. Both died instantly. The investigations of the Torre del Greco Carabinieri began (coordinated by deputy prosecutors Pierpaolo Filippelli and Raffaello Falcone, both currently additional prosecutors). The four accomplices of Tedeschi and Petrone (part of a professional gang) were identified and arrested in a short time: they are Salvatore Esposito, Antonio Corvo, Addolorata Esposito and Ernesto Labagnara.
The summary trial against them ended, one year after the events, with all the defendants sentenced to six years of imprisonment.
Article published on 26 October 2022 - 19:00
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