Vittorio Sgarbi was acquitted of defamation charges. The sentence was issued by the court of Enna following the investigations following the complaint of the journalist Andrea Scanzi according to which the art critic had directed against him, in online newspapers and in a TV broadcast, insulting sentences.
For the judges, however, it was "not defamation, but insult (decriminalized offense) and, therefore, in fact not envisaged by the law as a crime and the accused is not punishable for having committed the acts in a state of anger determined by the fact unfair of others ".
In the trial with an abbreviated procedure, Scanzi had appeared as a civil party through the lawyer Caterina Malavenda of the Milan bar, while Sgarbi was defended by the lawyers Giampaolo Cicconi from the Macerata bar and Giovanni Di Giovanni from the Caltanissetta bar.
(Unioneonline / ss)
