Boeri and six others indicted for Bosconavigli in Milan

They are all accused of culpable cooperation in unlawful subdivision and building abuse for having built the building on a vacant lot of 8,000 square metres, with a maximum height of more than 40 metres and 12 floors, in the absence of an implementation plan and in an area where "the maximum height of new buildings cannot exceed the height of pre-existing and surrounding buildings", and for having done so through a town-planning agreement that was never voted by the Milan city council and council. Among the charges were also the incorrect use of the agreed building permit as a building title and alleged underestimated urbanisation charges.

The defence had focused for all of them on the so-called 'subjective element', i.e. the awareness of builders, planners, public officials to possibly violate very complex building and urban planning regulations and with different jurisprudential orientations.

The Milan Public Prosecutor's investigation has two main strands: illegal subdivision and corruption, in which some former members of the former Landscape Commission, the heart of the enquiry, are also involved. In fact, according to the prosecutors, it was here - improperly, according to the investigators, in that it also absorbed the functions of the Building Commission - that projects and urban planning variants were authorised, without passing through the Council or the Council. And this was because, according to the prosecution, the same Landscape Commission included planners who were in business with the same real estate companies applying for permits. However, this thesis has not been fully confirmed by the Court of Re-examination (which freed six people remanded in custody) and the Court of Cassation.

The situation is different from the point of view of illegal subdivision, where the prosecution is scoring a few points in its favour, considering four indictments, a ruling by the Criminal Court of Cassation on the Residenze Lac case in Parco delle Cave, last July, and one by the Council of State on Via Fauché, in October, which reinforce the prosecution's thesis on the centrality of the Implementation Plan and the concept of restructuring, respectively.

The Municipality of Milan has decided to make changes to the Pgt and dismantle the Landscape Commission, as well as asking real estate companies to go to Palazzo Marino to find new agreements, modify the Scie already recognised and pay additional urbanisation charges.