Sassari, businessman acquitted of defamation charge against a carabiniere

Accused of defamation against a Carabinieri marshal, he is acquitted due to the particular triviality of the fact. Tonight in court in Sassari the decision of judge Antonietta Crobu, in the trial that saw the Sassari entrepreneur Marco Corda as accused for an episode dating back to 2021, in the midst of Covid. When the premises managed by Corda in via Roma in Sassari had been inspected by the military led by a marshal from Osilo. At the end of the intervention, the premises, deemed not in compliance with the provisions established at the time for the pandemic, were closed, only to be reopened after 48 hours.

Following the decision, the entrepreneur had written a post on Facebook at night in which he defined the marshal who had operated in the business as "a character who wants to advertise himself in the newspaper" . Having read the words which, as defense lawyer Gianmarco Mura will recall, remained visible on the social network for only six hours before being removed, the two marshals then in service in the town, both convinced that they were the target of that consideration, filed a complaint and the proceedings concluded today in which both were civil parties assisted by lawyers Maria Grazia Sanna and Giacomo Crovetti.

For the prosecutor, the defendant's responsibility was clear, as was the case for the two lawyers mentioned above, and for this reason he requested a fine of 3,000 euros. Mura instead retraced the story, recalling that Corda had apologized and offered compensation that was refused by the parties, then emphasizing that one of the two marshals was not the subject of the post and therefore should not feel implicated . The lawyer recalled a similar case in which another defendant, who had written much more serious words, had been acquitted, precisely by a judge of the Sassari court, according to article 162 ter, or extinction of the crime for reparatory conduct. Alternatively, the lawyer had requested that his client be acquitted due to the particular triviality of the fact. The request was accepted by the judge.