Four people were found guilty Friday
of ethnic and racial hatred in setting fire to a Roma camp in
Turin in 2011, judicial sources said.
A Turin appeals court found them guilty of starting the fire
after a protest rally against the camp in the outlying Vallette
district.
When the sentence was read out, one of the onlookers outside
the courtroom shouted out "it's a joke".
But the court cut the sentences of those found guilty to 2-4
years, judicial sources said.
The protest took place after a girl, to hide from her parents
that she had had sex, "fabricated a story that she had been
raped by Gypsies", the sentence said.
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