Mastella, compensation for damages for social media insults in charity

"I will donate to charity the damages for defamation on Facebook, where a citizen was convicted for insulting me." Thus, Benevento Mayor Clemente Mastella responded remotely to Forza Italia's appeal "to show 'pietas' toward those living in poverty by forgoing the legitimate claim for damages following a conviction issued by the Benevento Court, in which a citizen was convicted of aggravated defamation against me," which was made via social media.

“I find it truly singular,” continues the former Minister of Justice, “that someone has the nerve to label as just “dubious taste” the hope that I might “end up like Aldo Moro,” after having called me a “peasant boor” and a “treacherous glutton on the backs of citizens.” “Reducing all this to “getting carried away” is laughable and disrespectful towards the thousands of victims in our country due to this type of serious crime.

Furthermore - continues Mastella - this citizen has not apologized to me in the slightest or demonstrated his repentance, neither before nor during nor after the trial". "As I have done many other times, in the face of a sincere apology, I would have had no difficulty in withdrawing the complaint and renouncing any form of compensation. This has not happened. It will mean that when I collect the six hundred euros I will donate them to charity to those who are animated by positive and not uncivilized feelings", concludes Mastella.