He mistook a “work of art” for a death threat. It happened in 2020 in the countryside of Bonorva , when a man saw a horse skull displayed on his neighbor's land with the words “Remember that you must die” . Thinking that the warning was addressed to him , he filed a complaint with the police, starting the investigation and the trial that ended, in recent days, in court in Sassari.

The hearings highlighted how the defleshed horse's head was actually a creation of the 64-year-old defendant, a work that the man took with him to the places where he went to work . As he himself stated, along with other witnesses, the skull and other similar artefacts represented a series of works conceived by the man "for propitiatory and superstitious purposes" . And the incriminating writing "Remember that you must die" was not a threat against the neighbor, but rather a quote from the program "Avanti un altro" hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti where the phrase was repeated to provoke laughter from the audience.

All steps explained by defense attorney Fabrizio Manai during the discussion and accepted by judge Anna Pintore who ordered the acquittal of the 64-year-old.

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