Carabiniere on the verge of dismissal . Only the Council of State remains to decide the fate of a Carabinieri officer whose appeal against his dismissal was rejected by the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) last April.
The man was seeking the annulment of the Ministry of Defense's 2024 decision: permanent dismissal from service due to poor performance . Salvatore Deriu, the soldier's lawyer, deemed this decision unfair. He recounted the experiences of his client, who served at a station under the Nuoro Provincial Command.
In 2021 , he had requested a transfer to be close to his son, who is 100 percent disabled. However, his request was rejected and granted only 17 months later, in 2023. Meanwhile, the soldier's evaluation had been given an "insufficient" rating because, according to the Court's ruling, in 2021-2022 the man had been responsible for "disciplinary conduct," which is the basis of the ongoing proceedings. According to the lawyer, there was a clear "environmental incompatibility." Furthermore, the lawyer recalls, once he had the opportunity to care for his son, the Carabiniere had demonstrated sufficient performance, so much so that his superiors described him as "an asset."
For the regional administrative body, however, this conduct does not erase previous actions, and now the soldier faces the possibility of losing his job after decades of service. The New Carabinieri Union and its regional general secretary for Sardinia, Remo Giovanelli, are questioning the reason for the delay in the transfer, and also wondering what the point is of letting go of a soldier whose qualities have been re-evaluated on an island suffering from a Carabinieri staffing shortage.
Now we await the Council of State's decision, and it may not be the final one. Because lawyer Deriu is ready, "if necessary," to "also involve Parliament in the matter."
