Fabio Cannavaro Given 10-Month Suspended Jail Sentence For Breaking Police Seal At His House To Go For A Swim

Chris Wright

26th, February 2015

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By Chris Wright

Fabio Cannavaro, the thinking man’s trespasser

Fabio Cannavaro has been given a suspended prison sentence for the heinous crime of taking a dip in his own swimming pool.

The only slight sticking point being that the pool in question was located in the back garden of Cannavaro’s villa in Naples, which has been seized and cordoned off by police as part of an investigation into planning abuse.

Cannavaro was hit with a 10-month jail term, while his brother Paolo (who currently plays for Serie A side Sassuolo) and his wife Daniela Arenoso were also handed with custodial sentences.

Despite the property being confiscated, the trio still broke the police seal on the building in order to go for a quick swim in the back garden because obviously there are no other swimming pools in the whole of Italy.

According to the Mirror, all three members of the Quick Dip Club immediately appealed their sentences meaning that they will remain suspended until the court has re-visited the case.

As mentioned, Cannavaro’s house was seized by police as part of an ongoing investigation into abuse of building regulations and planning permission.

While the Cannavaro brothers and Arenoso were acquitted over the planning abuse allegations, they were convicted for entering the property illegally.

However, you shouldn’t really expect Cannavaro to spend a single second behind bars as that’s not really the way the Italian judicial $y$t€m works.

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3 Comments

  1. fabio says:

    What do you know about the Italian judicial $y$t€m ?

  2. Martin says:

    In fairness, a first-time offender actually serving a ten month prison sentence IN jail is not really the way any (well, most anyways, I’m not all-knowing!) European judicial system works.

    I can live with not everybody knowing this, but it’s a bit odd to imply that only funny business could prevent someone from serving time for such a minor criminal act. Also, wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to bribe himself out of getting sentenced in the first place, if he was prone to such acts? :>

  3. Jeremia says:

    In continental law a suspended prison sentence means that the convict is free to roam the world and will only go to prison if he tresspases the law in any way during the period of the suspended inprisonment; basically for the next 10 months Cannavarro will have to patiantly wait for the trafic lights to turn green and he’ll be allright.

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