Lazio President Claudio Lotito Receives Two-Month Suspended Jail Sentence, Later Cancelled, For Road Rage Fight - ReportLotito avoids jail term, but ordered to pay compensation to victim...
Lazio president Claudio Lotito has been handed a two-month suspended jail sentence, but had it subsequently cancelled, after a road rage fight dating back to 2005, a court in Rome was told today, reports tgcom.it.
The court heard how Lotito reacted violently during a road rage incident in Rome five years ago in which he was accused of private violence towards another motorist who filed a complaint to police.
The court was told how Lotito used violence towards the motorist after she had collided with his car, knocking off a side mirror. Once on the road, Lotito was alleged to have smashed the victim's phone on the ground.
During the hearing prosecutors asked magistrates to impose a four-month jail term, believing a custodial sentence would have been appropiate for the Lazio chief.
But a judge in the court of Rome decided on a two-month suspended sentence after Lotito asked for a pardon.
However, the suspended sentence was cancelled by the court, who used a new law that waivers jail terms for minor offences.
But Lotito was ordered to pay the motorist €1,000 in compensation as well as €1,800 in legal costs.
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