The investigating judge of the Court of Sassari, Gian Paolo Piana, will decide whether the Northern League MP Eugenio Zoffili, Matteo Salvini's long-time plenipotentiary in Sardinia, is right to consider himself a victim of defamation in the Alan Kurdi case. Today the judge heard the arguments of the parties in the proceedings opened against Bono's lawyer, Vittorio Delogu. The lawyer, assisted by colleagues Pierandrea Setzu and Michele Galia, is under investigation for a post published in September 2020, in which he contested and criticized Zoffili for a raid by the Northern League MP on a dock in the industrial port of Olbia . Zoffili showed up, with other members of the Northern League, on the dock and protested vigorously against the disembarkation, from the Alan Kurdi ship, of exhausted women and children who had been at sea for a long time.

Zoffili believes he was defamed by a post that compared him to the Nazis. The Public Prosecutor's Office of Sassari has requested the archiving of the proceedings, according to the prosecutor, Delogu "did not exceed the limits of restraint ", exercising the right to criticize. Zoffili opposes the request for archiving. For the defense, it has never been ascertained whether the post actually belongs to the person under investigation.

Delogu's lawyer, Pierandrea Setzu, also explained that there is no defamation because the terms used "also have meanings of mere negative critical judgment, which must be taken into account in light of the overall context in which they are used". Now the word passes to the investigating judge for the decision on archiving.

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