The proceedings against a young man from Ribera, Paolo Montalbano, aged 23, accused of the attempted murder of Alfredo Caputo, a doctor at the Cervello hospital in Palermo, were settled with a plea agreement of 5 years in prison. Montalbano settled before the investigating judge of the Court of Palermo, Marco Gaeta.
The doctor suffered a serious injury to his right ear and left arm. Montalbano allegedly demanded drugs and Caputo refused to give them to him because the treatment plan was missing. The Palermo public prosecutor’s office and the flying squad police reconstructed the story thanks also to several witnesses. The facts refer to February 21st.
Previously, another plea bargain request had been made, for 4 years and 2 months, for the 23-year-old from Ribera, which was then reformulated by the new defender, the lawyer Vincenzo Castellano, and obtained the consent of the public prosecutor, Enrico Bologna.
The doctor filed a civil action with the lawyer Giovanni Di Benedetto. Also a civil party is the Palermo Medical Association, represented by the lawyers Mauro Torti and Corrado Nicolaci.
The twenty-three-year-old was accused of throwing himself at Caputo while the doctor was talking on the phone, hitting him with a box cutter. The 23-year-old remains in prison.
In the photo, the lawyer Castellano
