Former policeman Tiziano Chiarandini condemned for targeting the Friulian property of the family of the ex Verona, Inter, and Juve player: `Justice is only equal for those who can afford it`
`The truth is that justice is not equal for everyone. It is only equal for those who can afford it, with the money to pursue their claims… And I want to tell this story because my family and I have always tried to set a good example, but then we ran into this person… When things like this happen, your life is turned upside down. But not everyone has the psychological, physical, and economic strength to carry on this battle.` The former forward Pierino Fanna, three league titles in his career, never thought he would return to the headlines for such a peculiar story. A story of harassment, herbicides, and poisoned plants on the Fanna family`s property in Moimacco, province of Udine, a town of fewer than 1,600 souls.
His sisters, Donatella and Rita, live there. There were lush fields and a vegetable garden, a garden blooming with rose bushes and ancient trees, until 7 years ago when the harassment began and that greenery withered and died due to glyphosate, a systemic herbicide whose use in public places has been banned by the Ministry of Health. `Ancient trees, planted by my grandparents, were poisoned. We had to cut them down. We had a beautiful vegetable garden that is unfortunately completely contaminated and we can no longer use,` Fanna explained. `The work of that Tiziano Chiarandini, who you would never expect to do such things. We found ourselves facing a `powerful` figure.` A retired State Police substitute commissioner, former regional president of Fidas (the Italian Federation of Blood Donor Associations), Chiarandini was found guilty by the Court of Appeal of Trieste last December. The court upheld the first-instance conviction for violation of domicile, sentencing him to 8 months in prison with a suspended sentence conditioned on paying provisional damages to the civil parties, his sisters Rita and Donatella, who live in that house.
Rita reported the man multiple times for stalking, but this charge was not pursued. `It happens that there are people who believe, by wearing a uniform, that they are omnipotent and therefore feel entitled to ruin or very negatively affect people`s lives,` Fanna concludes bitterly. `The Court of Appeal recognized only the violation of domicile and not the stalking, which the Udine Prosecutor`s Office incomprehensibly never contested, but there was a succession of verbal, material, and psychological intimidations, and it`s something we can`t understand. We need some justice and consistency because this story has been going on for 7 years, even when my mother was ill. That person ruined our lives and peace. We are a quiet family, we always sought dialogue within limits, but we ran into this person…` But we will see it through, even in civil court.
