The judge found no connection between the alleged defamation on social media and the suicide of a 28-year-old man from Guspini. The preliminary hearing judge of the Cagliari Court, Giorgio Altieri, acquitted all four defendants of the very serious charge of death resulting from another crime , sending three of them to trial on the sole charge of defamation on Facebook.
After two requests for dismissal by prosecutor Enrico Lussu, the first rejected by investigating judge Elisabetta Patrito and the second resulting in a request for forced indictment by investigating judge Luca Melis, Judge Altieri pronounced a "no case to answer" against the four defendants accused of having provoked the young man's suicide with their posts.
According to his family, including lawyers Carmen Deiana and Enrico De Toni, he took his own life because he was unfairly accused of molesting a group of children on a social media page in his hometown, where his license plate had also appeared.
Anna Maria Cuncu (57 years old from San Gavino, defended by the lawyer Federica Sanna) was acquitted of all charges, while Giovanni Paolo Luzzu (41 years old from Porto Torres), Emanuela Forte (49 from San Gavino) and Tiziana Liscia (54 from Guspini), defended by the lawyers Giovanni Antonio Lampis, Invan Cermelli and Angelo Lino Murtas, were sent to trial only for defamation.
