Is Arenas stadium, Contini and Lilliu after the acquittal: "Trust in justice, a new beginning from today"
The former mayor of Quartu and the former councilor had been arrested for embezzlement. After 11 years the charges were dropped"I carry a painful memory with me that I don't wish on anyone, but Stefano is reborn, it's me again".
The former councilor for public works of Quartu Stefano Lilliu rejoices after the second-level acquittal sentence linked to the investigation into the construction of the Is Arenas stadium , which was supposed to host Cagliari's Serie A championship in the face of unavailability of Sant'Elia. Once the accusation of embezzlement has been dropped, «I'm calmer. And the mind goes back to some time ago, when it all happened – continues Lilliu -. There everything falls on you, you don't know how to react because something is happening to you that you don't expect. I carry with me what happened the morning of the arrest, the memory of the looks of my family that allowed me to face the most difficult moments».
"After 11 years, for someone who didn't even know what a criminal trial was, I feel free," explains the former mayor of Quartu Mauro Contini , also acquitted in the second degree. «I ended up in the meat grinder of justice and for the second time the court acquitted us of every crime. I have the satisfaction of not having betrayed the Quartesi citizens, who had given me their trust. From the moment in which all the press organs - continues Contini - said that we were in the "smell of arrests" my phone no longer rang. I've been an entrepreneur all my life and had to start from scratch to build something. Today, however, when I wake up in the morning and see the sun, I think: "I did it"».
(Unioneonline/vf)
