Mafia, Lombardo acquitted: “Twelve years of nightmare

“Mine is an incredible human and judicial affair, twelve years of ordeal and great suffering. Twelve years that have not been marked by happiness for me and my family, but this sentence repays me for everything”. The former President of the Sicilian Region, Raffaele Lombardo, told Adnkronos immediately after the acquittal sentence on appeal from the accusation of external competition in mafia association and electoral corruption. The prosecution had asked for a sentence of seven years and 4 months, with the abbreviated procedure. “The judges were extremely courageous – says Lombardo, who did not come to the reading of the sentence in the Court – The lawyers were nothing short of sensational. My fear was that of a compromise sentence, in which they acquitted me from external competition in mafia association but they left me the electoral crime “. “Instead – he continues to Adnkronos – I thank the judges and justice for a just sentence”.