Salvatore Langellotto has been acquitted in the case arising from construction-company trucks placed on the forecourt of the Church of Saints Priscus and Agnellus in Sant'Agnello. The ruling closes the proceeding linked to the episode of 30 December 2023, when the vehicles were brought onto the church forecourt and later blessed by the parish priest.
The case was handled by the court in Torre Annunziata. According to national press coverage of the judgment, the court acquitted Langellotto after one hearing, finding that "the fact does not constitute a crime." The full written reasoning has not been published in the reports available so far.
The prosecution had alleged arbitrary occupation of another party's land or buildings, along with defacement or soiling of property, in connection with the presence of the trucks on the sagrato. The acquittal rejects the criminal liability alleged on those counts for this episode.
The decision concerns only the church-forecourt case. It does not resolve Langellotto's other criminal proceedings, which remain separate.
The location at the center of the case is the Chiesa dei Santi Prisco ed Agnello in Sant'Agnello, the parish church whose forecourt was used for the truck blessing on 30 December 2023. The blessing itself is not disputed in the available reports; the criminal question was whether parking and presenting the trucks there amounted to unlawful occupation or damage to property.
For readers following the matter, two points are important. First, the outcome turns on criminal liability, not on whether the trucks were present: the court found the conduct did not constitute a crime. Second, no broader judgment about the other cases involving Langellotto follows from this acquittal.
