A thrilling scene: last night in Ostia, the release from prison of the boss Roberto Spada was celebrated with applause and fireworks.
Fireworks, cheers and screams in the street to celebrate the release of Roberto Spada, the mafia boss who, in 2017, attacked the journalist Daniele Piervincenzi.
The truly creepy scene took place on Sunday 2 October 2022, two days after the man was freed from Tolmezzo prison for having "served his sentence“, Even if there are still several judicial proceedings at stake, for which we will have to wait for the Supreme Court to pronounce.
The video of the magazine that Roberto Spada gave to Daniele Piervincenzi
How did the celebrations in Ostia for his release go?
The fireworks, with which the community celebrated the liberation of Robert Spada, were detonated in Piazza Gasparri, one of the most important squares of Ostia.
In November 2017, the mafia boss attacked Piervincenzi, who was then working for the broadcast Nemo-Nobody excluded, conducted by the former hyena Henry Lucci, and the video had gone around the world, arousing heavy criticism everywhere.
Spada, for the fact, was sentenced to six years in prison plus one year of probation in 2018.
The judges of the court of appeal of Rome they then confirmed the first instance sentence, even in the part in which the prosecutor had contested the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.
The court, in addition to prison, had also sentenced Spada to compensation in favor of the National Federation of the Press, the Order of Journalists, the Municipality of Rome and the Lazio Region.
Roberto Spada is just the latest in the series: the other shocking celebration that made Rome talk
The case of Robert Spada it's just the latest in a series that features Mafia bosses, a Ostia così eats Roma, celebrated and hailed as heroes.
Among the most striking, and which caused a sensation, there was also Victor Casamonica, who in 2015, when he died, was celebrated with a funeral in the streets of city of Rome which raised a flood of criticism.
In fact, many opposed it, including the Church, but this was not enough to stop the funeral procession that would have made the Eternal City sadly famous for its attitude (too soft) towards the mafia.
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