There is also a 44-year-old Sardinian among the 5 convicted by the Single Court of Catania for insults and incitement to racial hatred on social media . The group will have to pay fines of between 667 and 2000 euros for propaganda and incitement to crime on racial, ethnic and religious grounds for comments that appeared on Facebook on a video on the presence of migrants in the San Berillo district of the Etna capital. As part of the same investigation, the Prosecutor's Office had asked for it to be dismissed because "the fact does not exist or in any case does not constitute a crime" for two members of the League, Senator Stefano Candiani and the former municipal councilor Fabio Cantarella, but the GUP, after the The opposition of the lawyer Goffredo D'Antona on behalf of the anti-mafia association Rita Atria which was the injured party, had ordered their forced indictment. For the parliamentarian, Palazzo Madama did not grant authorization to proceed.
The Prosecutor's Office had removed from the file the position of 14 other suspects among those who commented, from various Italian cities, on the video with phrases referring to migrants such as "put them in the ovens", "the smell of Napalm is nice in the morning", "at showers", "damned illegal immigrants", "throw them into the sea where they came from", "go with the bulldozer" and "we need the flamethrower". Among them the 5 defendants, who had access to the abbreviated trial . While the others are on trial with the ordinary rite.
In detail, in addition to the 44-year-old Sardinian - who will have to pay a 1000 euro fine - two men and two women were convicted. To them, a 79-year-old from the province of Venice and a 73-year-old from the province of Milan, the Court granted generic mitigating circumstances, sentencing them to a fine of 667 euros, with a suspended sentence but subject to compensation for damage in favor of the civil parties, one euro to the Rita Atria association.
And again, a 59-year-old from Brindisi will have to pay a fine of 1000 euros, while the fine - for a 57-year-old from the province of Udine - is 2000 euros. Furthermore, for 3 years they will not be able to participate - in any form - in electoral propaganda activities for political or administrative elections.
(Unioneonline/vf)