Milan, 25 June (LaPresse) – The Milan Court of Appeal has reduced by several months the sentences handed down a year ago at first instance against the Milan ultras in the ‘Doppia Curva’ trial, whilst acknowledging the existence of a criminal organisation within the Rossoneri’s organised supporters’ groups. The panel, led by President Antonella Lai, reduced the sentence for Francesco Lucci – brother of the former head of the Sud stand, Luca Lucci, who is currently in prison on several drug-related charges – to 5 years (from 5 and a half years), to three years and eight months for Fedez’s former bodyguard (who had been sentenced to four years and 20 days on 19 July 2025) and to three years and six months for Riccardo Bonissi (down from three years and eight months), all members of the organised Milan supporters’ group and represented by lawyer Jacopo Cappetta. The grounds for the judgement will be filed within 90 days, but it is already clear from the operative part that the Court has found all three ultras – aged 46, 43 and 36 – guilty of participation in the criminal organisation alleged by the public prosecutor Paolo Storari (who has requested that the sentence be upheld on appeal), involving 16 incidents of bodily harm, assaults, attacks on public premises, assaults on stewards at the San Siro stadium, and staff checking entry tickets at the Meazza stadium, between 2018 and 2024. Among these were the attacks on the former leader of the ‘Curva’, Giancarlo Lombardi, known as ‘Sandokan’, in January 2024, and on personal trainer Cristiano Iovino on 21–22 April of the same year.
Ultras investigation: reduced sentences on appeal for Lucci’s brother and Fedez’s former bodyguard
Milan, 25 June (LaPresse) – The Milan Court of Appeal has reduced by several months the sentences handed down a year ago at first instance against the Milan ultras in the ‘Doppia Curva’ trial, whilst acknowledging the existence of a criminal organisation within the Rossoneri’s organised supporters’ groups. The panel, led by President Antonella Lai, reduced the sentence for Francesco Lucci – brother of the former head of the Sud stand, Luca Lucci, who is currently in prison on several drug-related charges – to 5 years (from 5 and a half years), to three years and eight months for Fedez’s former bodyguard (who had been sentenced to four years and 20 days on 19 July 2025) and to three years and six months for Riccardo Bonissi (down from three years and eight months), all members of the organised Milan supporters’ group and represented by lawyer Jacopo Cappetta. The grounds for the judgement will be filed within 90 days, but it is already clear from the operative part that the Court has found all three ultras – aged 46, 43 and 36 – guilty of participation in the criminal organisation alleged by the public prosecutor Paolo Storari (who has requested that the sentence be upheld on appeal), involving 16 incidents of bodily harm, assaults, attacks on public premises, assaults on stewards at the San Siro stadium, and staff checking entry tickets at the Meazza stadium, between 2018 and 2024. Among these were the attacks on the former leader of the ‘Curva’, Giancarlo Lombardi, known as ‘Sandokan’, in January 2024, and on personal trainer Cristiano Iovino on 21–22 April of the same year.
