Acquitted because the fact does not subsist from the accusation of having violated the state secret and of not having obeyed an order of the authority . The charges against the former parliamentarian and journalist Mauro Pili, investigated by the Cagliari prosecutor after the complaint by the Ministry of Defense following an inspection carried out at the Teulada shooting range in August 2016, have been dropped.
The story concerns an inspection that the parliamentarian had made inside the military area, where a deposit of nuclear material had been reported, then removed after a few days. Pili would have been given an order, not punctual but generic, not to make and disseminate images, which the parliamentarian had not considered legitimate : so he had taken up and disseminated what he considered the queen evidence of the environmental disaster in the Teulada shooting range. The former Unidos exponent on that occasion denounced the presence of a deposit of radioactive waste from use inside the Milan Missile range, which contained thorium, a substance much more lethal than depleted uranium itself.
Today the public prosecutor Andrea Vacca asked for the acquittal of the charges (because the fact does not constitute a crime), believing that the parliamentarian was pursuing a greater good, that of environmental protection and to inform both the institutions and the citizens. His defender Maurizio Scarparo, on the other hand, argued that there was really no crime, given that that area had not been protected by the constraints that regulate state secrecy. Judge Ermengarda Ferrarese accepted this latest reconstruction, acquitting him with the broadest formula.
