Theft or receiving stolen goods , that is the question. The qualification of the crime was at the center of a trial that ended today in court in Sassari . With a 40-year-old from Ittiri accused of having taken a cell phone forgotten in 2021 in front of the low wall of his house in the town in the province of Sassari. The owner had left it there at dawn before going to work and the neighbor, finding it later, had taken it without thinking too much. Using the phone for a year until it turned off forever.
A use that also appeared clear from the examination of the telephone records made by the investigators' experts. But the doubt hovered: had someone given the defendant the cell phone, and in that case would a charge of receiving stolen goods be brought, or was it a simple theft?
Letizia Doppiu Anfossi, the man's lawyer, had emphasized that there was no complaint against her client with the second hypothesis as the object . And this led judge Silvia Masala to order the dismissal of the case for the defendant. The cell phone was extinguished and, after three years, the charge as well.