[ad_1]
Your freedom begins where that of others ends, but it often happens that someone goes beyond that limit. That’s what he did Oliviero Toscani in December 2014, when the host of a radio show made some nasty comments against Matteo salvini commenting on a well-known report that appeared in those days in the weekly Oggi. After more than 6 years, the Court of Cassation has confirmed the conviction for defamation of the well-known photographer, who will now have to pay compensation to the leader of the League. Reached forAdnkronosOliviero Toscani has not shown regret for what has been said but, on the contrary, claims all his statements.
“Since you have to pay to say what you think, I gladly pay to say what I think. What I said about Salvini I would say again, even if I had been condemned I will continue to tell my truth and time will prove me right. Look what happened to Salvini! Now run on the winners bandwagon“, the photographer told the news agency. Oliviero Toscani is ironic when commenting on the decision of the Court of Cassation:”I am happy to have this opportunity. What I said is not bad, I work to earn money to say what I think. Everyone invests money for what they want: there are those who invest it to go on vacation on yachts, those who invest it in jewelry, I invest it to say what I think. It’s a luxury, it’s like buying a painting or a spoken work of art“.
The conclusion of the judicial matter has reached the third and final degree of sentence after the appeals presented by Oliviero Toscani. However, the arguments brought by the photographer to court were not considered valid by the judge, who definitely put a point, condemning the photographer because “The sarcastic metaphor had nothing to do with the scathing and mocking criticism of the behavior, not even expressly indicated, of the politician Salvini but, in the choice of the image used and the ‘rhyme’ it denoted the intention to launch discredit in the person of Salvini himself“.
Relations between the photographer and Matteo Salvini have never been idyllic and, over the years, the photographer has never given up on criticism, often excessive, of the leader of the League. At the moment, Matteo Salvini has not ruled on the Supreme Court ruling on the case. The amount of compensation due by Oliviero Toscani.
