"My case ended yesterday with an acquittal. The judge ruled that there weren't even grounds for a criminal trial. A simple, technical, and definitive sentence on the criminal level. And it's right to start from there."
Thus begins a long post published on Chiara Ferragni's Instagram profile following yesterday's acquittal in the Milan trial in which she was charged with aggravated fraud in the Pandoro and Easter egg cases.
"These two years," she explains, "have been complex, to say the least. Not because I had any self-doubt, but because living under constant scrutiny, unable to respond, unable to explain, puts you to the test in a profound way ." "My fee in those operations was fixed," she adds. "I didn't earn based on sales. I was at the peak of my image and my work. There was no reason, neither financial nor sensible, why I would want to deceive anyone. Precisely for this reason, an administrative error is one thing, a criminal offense is another. And they have never been the same thing ."
Yesterday's decision isn't a "half-hearted acquittal," as some have tried to make it seem. It's, if anything, something even clearer: it means that this trial, as it was constructed, didn't even have the foundation to fully exist . It's not: "We don't know how it went." It's: "There were no grounds for pursuing criminal proceedings." And this is perhaps the strongest part of all, because it means that for two years I've been stuck, exposed, judged, for something that shouldn't even have happened this way .
And again: "I don't say this out of anger, I say it with awareness. With the clarity of someone who knows they faced everything without running away, without hiding, respecting justice and silence even when it was the hardest thing to do ." Today, "I'm not celebrating a victory, I'm closing a chapter."
(Unioneonline)