Almost three years after the events the trial against the man ended with a seven-month prison sentenceformer deputy Sara Cunial (M5s and then Mixed)accused of refusing to provide information on her personal identity – a charge from which she was acquitted – insult and threat to a public official.
The single judge of the Aosta court Marco Tornatore has the suspension of the sentence was made subject to the payment of compensation for damages quantified at four thousand euros towards the civil party. Prosecutor Francesco Pizzato had asked for an eight-month sentence and for it to be evaluated the transmission of documents to the prosecutor’s office for perjury against four defense witnesses. “During the trial – said the public prosecutor – the criminal responsibility for the disputed facts clearly emerged, that is, for providing the personal details and for having insulted and threatened the financial policeman”.
The episode dates back to April 24, 2021, on the occasion of a demonstration against Dad in the center of the Aosta Valley capital. According to the Aosta prosecutor’s office, before going on stage at the event, Cunial would have railed against a financier. At the time the region was in the red zone and the deputy – in the reconstruction of the investigators – was was caught drinking beer with eight other people, without distancing, outside a place that was then closed for five days for violation of anti-Covid regulations. «I am a parliamentarian and I enjoy immunity» she would have told the two financiers who had asked her for a document. Under the stage, then, she would have provided her parliamentarian card, but shortly afterwards she would have snatched it from the soldier’s hand and told him «you should be ashamed» and again «if you go back to the boy to make him close the bar I will ruin you». According to the defense, the testimonies were all genuine and not mendacious «the climate of that historical moment must be remembered, it was difficult. The rules were ambiguous and difficult to interpret.”
