VARESE – «Thanks to all those who they will join to put an end to this shameful disgust», he wrote on Facebook in June 2021 a woman from Vareseafter he had spent a holiday in Valle D’Aosta, together with her husband, and she was upset by the permanent presence of a dog on the balcony of a house in Chatillon.
From post to process
For that post, accompanied by a photo of the dog on the balcony, the woman is now on trial in court in Varese on charges of defamation. Fearing that the animal domestic was the victim of mistreatment, and despite the reassurances received from the local police officersthe woman had turned to her friends on the social network, publishing the dog owner’s home address and asking users to contact the police and the Municipality of Chatillon to report the situation, convinced that that animal had to be saved from certain death, which would have come due to the scorching sun.
The dog actually got along well with his owneras emerged following an inspection carried out by local police officers, who had examined the animal’s living conditions and had visited the owner’s neighbours, who had ruled out mistreatment, reporting that the dog was regularly taken for walks.
Insults from all over Italy
Utah, a cross between border collie and shepherd, born in 2015, he loves long walks and playing with his owner. But at the time of the facts, the photo portraying him on the balcony became the object of word of mouth spread on digital message boards, and for her mistress began a nightmare made up of insults, ferocious criticism and appeals arriving in a short time from all over Italy. All comments posted on Facebook by those who were convinced that the dog forced to live on the balcony would not survive the extreme heat.
The testimony of the veterinarian
«In that period the dog had some mild ailments which could have been linked to the flare-up of a gastrointestinal problem or tracheitis. For this reason, pending investigations, I recommended not to leave him free in the garden, so as to prevent him from eating the grass.” Words pronounced by the Utah vet in front of the judge Alessandra Sagonein the trial where the dog’s owner became a civil party with the assistance of the lawyer Valeria Fadda (today, Tuesday 16 April, replaced in the chamber by her colleague Elisa Benetazzo).
The defense thesis
The accused, who will have the opportunity to provide her version of events at the next hearing, did not deny being the author of the post which had caused a real chain reaction, including insults and reports sent to the local police of Chatillon . But according to her defender, the lawyer Vincenzo Toscanoif he had received a timely response from the police, who responded eight days after the first email sent to the Command, she would not have been alarmed by the dog’s fate. And maybe he wouldn’t have published that post.
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