That ride of a few seconds, during the procession for San Costantino in Paulilatino , had cost him the license to carry firearms. Now one of the eight knights - all first indicted and then acquitted in criminal proceedings - has won his appeal to the Tar against the Oristano Police Headquarters, which had considered him a dangerous subject and had prevented him from practicing his passion: hunting.
The facts date back to 5 September 2021. The religious procession wound its way, as per tradition, on the streets of the town. Between anticovid rules and the Martini decree, only the passage to the small trot of the horses that opened the procession was authorized. But the gallop had started at the traffic lights in via Nazionale. Short, in a road closed to traffic. The carabinieri had drawn up a report and the protagonists had been investigated for "non-compliance with the provisions of the authority". The investigation had been closed, but the questore had declared the "social dangerousness" of the knights and revoked the license to carry firearms. The Regional Administrative Court declared the measure unfounded and annulled it.
For the administrative judges, "the appellant's judgment of unreliability is formulated without adequate investigation and motivation, as the administration has not considered that the mere fact that the appellant rode at a gallop for a few tens of meters, in front of the procession and in a road closed to traffic (therefore without actually creating dangerous conditions for people, for which in fact no evidence can be found in the documents of the case), can only be considered devoid of any connotation of social danger capable of affecting the reliability of the appellant about the use of weapons".
Meanwhile the knight was unable to go hunting for two years, even if he was right.
