(ANSA) – CAGLIARI, MAY 13 – Sentence to a fine of 500 euros and a provisional penalty of 1,500 euros for threats, but acquittal from the accusation of instigation to commit a crime (for not having committed the crime) and from that of defamation (for the exercise of a right of political criticism). Thus the judge of the Court of Cagliari, Cristina Ornano, closed the trial against the Sardinian activist Mauro Aresu, 37, accused of these three crimes following a complaint by Matteo Salvini for a post on Facebook against him in which he evoked piazzale Loreto in Milan a few days before a visit to Cagliari in 2017 by the leader of the Lega to participate in the regional congress of the Carroccio.
“Not good”, commented the accused, defended by the lawyer Marcella Cabras who had asked for complete acquittal from all disputes for not having committed the fact or, alternatively, for exercising a right of political criticism . The prosecutor Andrea Massidda had asked for a one-year sentence for all three charges.
“I will wait with curiosity for the reasons for the device – said Claudia Eccher, lawyer of the civil party for Salvini who in the harangue had quantified the damage at 100 thousand euros – I can say that I am absolutely not satisfied”.
In the trial, which lasted several months, the investigation was reopened because Judge Ornano had asked the Postal Police to clarify in a clear and unambiguous manner that Aresu himself had published the offending post.
The sentence finally came today, after two hours in a council chamber. In ninety days there will be the filing of the reasons, but the fact is that the judge considered that there was only the crime of threats (the reference to Piazzale Loreto, the place where Mussolini was hung upside down after the execution by the partisans ), while he held that there was no defamation or incitement to commit a crime, undoubtedly heavier crimes challenged by the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Source: Ansa
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