At the appeal process, underway in Turin for the incidents in Piazza San Carlo during the Champions League final, the Attorney General's Office asked for confirmation of the 18-month prison sentence forChiara Appendino.

The MP of the 5 Star Movement is called into question as mayor of the Piedmontese capital for what happened on the evening of June 3, 2017, when a series of waves of panic in the crowd present in the square to follow the Champions League final on a giant screen caused over 1,500 injuries and later the death of two women.

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Piazza San Carlo in Turin on the day of the tragedy for the Champions League final

The same penalty was proposed for the then head of cabinet Paolo Giordana. The indictment of the attorney general, Carlo Maria Pellicano, is still ongoing and concerns the other defendants in the trial.