Liguria, yes to immediate trial for Toti. The trial to start in November –

The investigating judge Paola Faggioni has accepted the request of the Genoa prosecutor’s office for an immediate trial for the former president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, the port entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli and the former president of the Port Authority of Genoa and Savona, as well as former CEO of Iren, Paolo Emilio Signorini. The first hearing has been set for November 5. The defense will have to decide, by September 15, whether to proceed with the ordinary procedure or choose the abbreviated procedure or plea bargaining. The former president of the Liguria Region is charged with corruption and illicit financing, while Signorini and Spinelli are charged with corruption only. The judging panel is composed of judges Roberto Cascini, Riccardo Crucioli and Valentina Vinelli: it is assigned automatically based on a table established with a computer system. Toti therefore has the opportunity to defend himself in court after the accusations and the three months of house arrest, which then forced him to resign, the only way to return to freedom.