Acquitted because the fact does not exist. The legal case of Massimo D'Agostino, mayor of Bonorva, and the person in charge of the town's social-assistance sector, both accused of abandonment of an incapacitated person, ended up in court today in Sassari. A criminal hypothesis that first arose from an anonymous complaint, which reported alleged thefts of money from a disabled lady in the Logudorese center, and then from an investigation that involved the two figures from the Municipality.
The alleged responsibility would have consisted in having in fact “abandoned” the woman, a charge contested today in a summary trial before the preliminary hearing judge Sergio De Luca by defense attorney Gianmarco Mura. The lawyer emphasized how the injured party is actually monitored by social services, lives in good conditions and is integrated into the social context of her neighborhood, without any shortcomings having been reported. So much so that, Mura emphasizes, she receives meals cooked elsewhere every day to avoid her using the gas stove.
The defense then responded to the prosecutor's request for indictment that the number of hours assigned by social services to people who suffer from fragility, as in this case, is not chosen autonomously by the sector but is the result of calculations and parameters established by the Region. At the same time, it is not the role of the mayor to be able to change decisions taken elsewhere, the lawyer argues, who stressed in conclusion that there has never been any abandonment of the lady. And the judge for the preliminary hearings, at the end of the council chamber, ordered the acquittal of both.
