The penalty imposed
The Court of Appeal of Venice on November 8, 2024 sentenced the leader of Centopercentoanimalisti Paul Mocavero for the crime of aggravated defamation against Sergio Berlato, Italian Member of the European Parliament, confirming the first-instance sentence of a fine of nine hundred euros plus compensation for damages and the payment of legal costs and civil action costs.
No to violence and threats
“We express satisfaction for the conviction of Mocavero – comments the Hon. Sergio Berlato, Italian Member of the European Parliament – because it confirms and establishes the principle according to which violent people who offend and threaten those who do not think like them can and above all must be condemned.
Free thinking but with limits
In our country, everyone is free to express their thoughts and dissent – continues the Hon. Berlato –, but there must be no tolerance for those who gratuitously offend or, even worse, threaten honest citizens with a perfectly clean criminal record whose only “fault” is their passion for the exercise of a legal activity, such as hunting, regularly permitted throughout the world and strictly regulated by regional, national and community regulations.
A very precise warning
We believe that it will be a bitter disappointment for Mr. Mocavero to learn that defaming a hunter is a crime and it is not even free. This latest conviction must serve as a warning to all those who believe they can offend or threaten hunters without having to accept the consequences before the law" concludes the Hon. Sergio Berlato, Italian Member of the European Parliament (source: ACR).
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