Acquitted because the fact does not exist. This was the judge’s decision regarding a “keyboard lion” from Altopoli, who had been accused of incitement to commit crimes.
At the center of it all, a comment on a local newspaper’s post, which reported a news story. The time frame of the events takes place in a very complex and difficult period, which unfortunately we all remember well: 2020, the months following the lockdown and, to be precise, those in which we began to see the light, after the almost total closures of the first months of the year. Those moments, precisely, in which we tried to reopen and, at the same time, maintain a minimum of safety measures.
Often ending up giving birth to compromise solutions that today seem quite absurd to us and that maybe they were anyway even then; but which, in any case, constituted an attempt to manage an emergency of which there had been no memory since the post-war period. Among these, precisely, the bizarre rules relating to the consumption and removal of products.
Sector in which checks by the police, including local police, were required to ensure that the provisions were respected. Even in a context that is extremely attentive to understanding the difficult economic moment of commercial operators, there were some fines. Very few, to tell the truth.
It is precisely in these circumstances that, on Facebook, a user is said to have taken issue with the local police, regarding a check carried out at a business in Rovigo. She would have, in essence, said that in his opinion of her i members of the local police had to be physically eliminated and could have been used as fertilizer.
The defender, the lawyer Lorenzo Toso from Rovigo, argued that the comment could hardly have led anyone to take these statements literally and physically eliminate them some members of the local police. And, in the end, an acquittal arrived.
