A Swiss court has sentenced a 63-year-old Italian to three years and five months behind bars for being a member of a criminal organisation. The man had worked for a 'Ndrangheta mafia group whilst living in Switzerland. The man, who was nicknamed the “Swiss Cosimo”, had collected and transported weapons for the mafia cell operating near to Milan. His criminal activities, which also included guarding an illegal hemp field in canton Bern, were conducted between 2003 and 2011. An original trial in November 2018 had sentenced the man to three years and eight months imprisonment. The ruling was overturned as the court had wrongly described a camping saw as a weapon. But the defendant did not escape a jail sentence when the case was sent back to the federal court for reassessment. The court reduced the term by three months to take into account the length of proceedings against the defendant. But defence pleas for a fine were ignored as the man had never shown any sign of contrition for...
