The Naples Court, Third Criminal Section presided over by Judge Luana Romano, yesterday sentenced FDM, a 67-year-old municipal employee with nearly forty years of service, to one year and six months in prison for absenteeism.
The report that triggered the checks
The accusation centers on three incidents that occurred in the summer of 2020, when FDM was managing the San Giovanni a Teduccio cemetery. The investigation was triggered by a report from his predecessor, GT, who noted irregular absences from his work and alerted the authorities.
Checks by the municipal police confirmed the irregularities: on those occasions, the employee was not found on site.
During the trial, FDM attempted to justify himself by claiming he had gone to the cemetery's headquarters, but the judge disagreed. The sentence imposed appears lenient compared to the strict terms set forth in the penal code for the crime. The Municipality of Naples has joined the proceedings as a civil party.
I don't know all the details, but it seems strange to me that on three occasions there were no checks, and also that the employee claimed to be at the headquarters: the documentation should clarify, but often the archives were not consulted or were disorganized.
It's a seemingly simple case, but it isn't. The trial resulted in a seemingly lenient sentence, perhaps given his years of service. However, the whistleblower was the former manager, and this casts doubt on the dynamics and true responsibilities.
The news seems to state that the employee has been convicted but the facts seem more complex than what is written in a few lines, and perhaps there was a lack of explanations regarding the reason for the transfer, the time stamps and the hours: not everything is clear from the story.