FALLACI's TRIAL

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Prosecutor – Adel Smith, 43 year old, the president of Muslim Union of Italy.
Defendand – Oriana Fallaci

Many believe Smith to be the author of anonymous pamphlet “Islam will punish Fallaci”, calling Muslims to kill the journalist. 14th June 2005 Smith was sentenced by the court to six months in jail, after he had called Catholic Church “a criminal organization” and pope John Paul II “a deceiver” in TV broadcast.

He became known after he had demanded all the crosses from the walls of the kindergarten and the school in Antonio Silveri di Ofena, where his sons had attended, to be removed. The first sentence of a local court had been to banish all the crosses, but being inconsistent with Italian law, it was cancelled afterwards by the court in Aquila. As a sign of their disgust the inhabitants of the city raised a big concrete cross on the main square.

Italian law from 1920 allow hanging the crosses on the walls of the schools. The cross is more than a religious symbol, according to bishop Giuseppe Bettori, secretary-general of the Episcopal conference, it also expresses the roots of Italian civilization.

Adel Smith defiled the symbol of the cross once again – he threw the crucifix out of the hospital of l’Aquila’s window while visiting his mother. First he insisted on the hospital’s personnel to take the cross from the room, and as they refused, he casted it on the street himself.
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