The Court of Appeal of Naples has reduced the sentences for the massive theft of ancient volumes stolen from the Girolamini Library, one of the most serious cultural crimes in recent history. The panel revised downward the sentences for the six defendants convicted in the first instance, taking action due to the statute of limitations for some of the crimes charged by the Prosecutor's Office.
The principal defendant, Massimo Marino De Caro, former director of the prestigious institution, saw his sentence reduced from 5 years and 3 months to 3 years and 9 months, in addition to the final 7-year sentence already received through a summary trial in parallel proceedings.
The other defendants also received sentence reductions: Mirko Camuri was reduced from 5 years and 8 months to 6 months, Stefano Ceccantoni from 2 years and 6 months to 2 years, Luca Cableri from 4 years and 6 months to 3 years, Maurizio Bifolco from 5 years and 6 months to 4 years and 9 months, and Stéphane Delsalle from 4 years to 3 years.
The judges also declared inadmissible, because it was filed out of time, the appeal by the Prosecutor's Office against those acquitted in the first instance: Viktorya Pavloskiy, Lorena Paola Weigant, Alejandro Cabello and Federico Roncoletta, who thus definitively exit the proceedings.
The case of Don Sandro Marsano, Provost of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was already acquitted in the first instance and is now definitively out of the trial, has also been definitively closed.
List of convictions (in descending order)
Massimo Marino De Caro – 3 years and 9 months
Maurizio Bifolco – 4 years and 9 months
Luca Cableri – 3 years old
Stéphane Delsalle – 3 years old
Stefano Ceccantoni – 2 years
Mirko Camuri – 6 months
(Definitively acquitted: Viktorya Pavloskiy, Lorena Paola Weigant, Alejandro Cabello, Federico Roncoletta; Don Sandro Marsano out of the trial).
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