Overview

• Professor Giorgio Galanti received a one-year prison sentence while Loria Toncelli and Pietro Amedeo Modesti were each handed eight months for ideological falsehood.
• The falsified certificate purported to document a July 10, 2017 strain cardiaco exam that prosecutors say was never performed.
• Judges excluded the enhanced probative aggravating factor, reducing the sentences well below the prosecution’s requests of up to three and a half years.
• Davide Astori’s parents, sister and former partner Francesca Fioretti saw their civil damages claims rejected in the ruling.
• Defense lawyers have signaled plans to appeal, citing a 2019 printing date on the hospital letterhead as evidence against intentional forgery.