(ANSA) – NUORO, June 13 – On September 8, 2018 he performed in a concert at the Exme in Nuoro with an anti-militarist song and raising his middle finger, a performance considered outrageous for the police present. For those facts the Nuorese rapper Bakis Beks had been reached together with 3 other young people from the audience, by a criminal decree of conviction with a fine of 2 thousand and 500 euros each.
Today in front of the single judge of the court of Nuoro Daniela Russo, the trial that sees the four accused of insulting a public official has opened. The hearing was adjourned to September 19 for the deposition of the first witness of the prosecution, represented in the courtroom by the prosecutor Francesca Picu. The lyrics of the song “Message”, with which Bakis Beks had blatantly pronounced against the presence of military bases in Sardinia, were targeted. “There is no time for mediation, compensation, conciliations, this is a message to the settlers.
Enough, out of the c ….! “, This is the offending passage, accompanied at the end by the middle finger raised by the rapper.” I cannot accept the sentence because I and the other 3 friends – explains the singer before the hearing – are were found guilty of things we did not do, that is of having railed against the police when in reality I only performed my performance against the military bases “.” We will fight – adds the lawyer Giulia Lai – because in the song of the my client, words of vindication were pronounced against military policies and not insults against the forces of order “.
In front of the court, the anti-milatists of the Libertade association promoted a sit-in of solidarity by unrolling a banner with the words “Art does not repress”. “We are an easy target only because we also oppose military policies in Sardinia through music and art – denounces the president of Libertade Giampiero Cocco – We want to continue to fight and stand by people like Bakis and his friends joined by a criminal conviction for expressing one’s opinions through music “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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