Targeted and harassed by animal rights activists with offenses (also via social networks), threats, disparaging posters posted around the country and as well blitz with signs and insults yell at his address as well during Christmas mass now Don Pierino Sacella, parish priest of Torre Maina (600 souls in the municipality of Maranello, Modena) asks for damages. On Tuesday, the religious with a passion for hunting became a civil party in the trial that sees two animal rights defenders (a man and a woman) who asked to be admitted to the abbreviated rite, to obtain a discount of one third of the sentence in the event of sentence.
They are accused of defamation, stalking (persecutory acts) and threats in competition. But at the same time the don, labeled by activists as a "murderer", also sued for damages in the civil proceedings those who had taken part in the blitz-garrison during the religious celebration, that is, those who had been identified at the time by the carabinieri. The damage bill presented by the parish priest with the alpine hat is 350 thousand euros in total.
And the former military chaplain sent there by registered mail refunding request to each of the more than twenty activists identified by the military. The last blitz was at Christmas two years ago. "Murderous priest, if you find yourself in the countryside you will not be protected by the walls of your church" the words that the animal rights activists had addressed Don Sacella during the religious function, who in court had also opposed the request for dismissal of the criminal proceedings presented by the prosecutor (Corriere della Sera).