The trial of the two accused of the crime of soiling the boundary wall of the abandoned estate of Surigheddu , owned by the Region, was due to open today in Sassari.

In reality it was discovered that the initiation of the procedure was not notified to the Region , but to the Surigheddu farm, now bankrupt and disappeared since 1986. Judge Monia Adami could only postpone the hearing to 9 June next .

The accused are Bruno Bellomonte, 73, and Mario Sanna, 75, exponents of the Sardinian independence movement Liberu, who in April 2018 had written, in white paint, "Sa terra sarda a su populu sardu" on the boundary wall, and now they risk a one-year sentence.

Again this morning , in front of the courthouse in via Roma, the pro-independence activists of Liberu and Caminera Noa staged a sit-in in protest against the indictment and in solidarity with the two defendants.

"We know well the difference between what is legal and what is right, and we know that very often the two things don't match", argue the demonstrators who reproduced the offending writing on a sheet of cardboard. "If the legality of speculation manifests itself as injustice in the light of the sun, then we practice Sardinian justice in the light of the sun, calling the Sardinian people to claim the sacrosanct right to possess their lands".

« They accuse us of having smeared an abandoned and unsafe wall. We have only painted a sentence that is part of our political line . We wanted to urge the return of those 1,200 hectares of fertile land to Sardinian shepherds and farmers. Land and structures abandoned for 40 years where someone would like to build resorts, swimming pools and golf courses», commented Bellomonte.

(Unioneonline/ss)

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