“Rome, 5 July (AKI) — In a landmark ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court of Cassation convicted a pensioner of ‘contempt for the nation’ and fined him 1,000 euros after he called Italy a ‘s**t country.
The ruling came after Italy’s paramilitary Carabinieri police force took the 71-year-old man to court for saying ‘What a s**t country Italy is..why are you wasting time with such crap,’ to officers who fined him for driving on a single headlamp.
The Supreme Court rejected the man’s claim that his words were a rightful expression of free thought.
“’Freedom of expression cannot translate into coarse and brutal insults that do not correspond to objective criticism,’ it said in its sentence.”
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