Revocation request rejected –

The Court of Appeal of Genoa has rejected the request to revoke house arrest for the governor Giovanni Toti, arrested last May 7 for corruption in an investigation that triggered an earthquake in the Liguria region. The defense attorney Stefano Savi had asked for Toti to revoke the measure or, alternatively, to convert it into an obligation to reside in Ameglia (where he is under house arrest) or a ban on residing in Genoa. Requests to which the prosecutor had given a negative opinion and now the judges have also rejected it.

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According to the judges of the Review Court of Genoa, it is the technical-administrative one and not the “exquisitely political” one that includes “Toti’s persistent dangerousness, who – not by chance – is accused of having exchanged economic benefits with the adoption of specific administrative measures and certainly not of having adopted ‘political’ choices in his role as president of the Region”. This is what can be read in the decision of the panel to reject the request to revoke the house arrest of the Ligurian governor Giovanni Toti, arrested on May 7 for corruption.

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In this context, according to the panel of judges, “there remains a concrete probability that the defendant will repeat conduct of similar disvalue, trusting in the misunderstood meaning of ‘protection of public property’ which he admitted to having been inspired by at the time of the facts in the relationships he had with Spinelli and Moncada and which, on the basis of a seriously circumstantial framework not even formally contested, to date appear to be correctly classified – the judges of the Review Court maintain – in terms of corruption”.