he will have to pay 42 thousand euros, was satire- Corriere.it

In February 2019, in the library behind him, during a TV connection, the director of Daily fact
he had placed a roll of toilet paper with Matteo Renzi’s face imprinted on it.
The former prime minister did not take it well and decided to denounce Marco Travaglio.

A long judicial tug of war began. Renzi, in the writ of summons, had asked for 500 thousand euros for “moral, existential, patrimonial and non-patrimonial” damages caused by the display of that gadget. However, a sentence has now arrived from the court of Florence, which established that the episode did not involve any defamation. Furthermore, the senator of Florence, for having abused the procedural instrument, will have to compensate the journalist with 42 thousand euros, in addition to another 30,641 between legal fees, ancillary charges and VAT.

The sentence, against which Renzi announces an appeal, was signed by judge Susanna Zanda. Reading the document, one passage in particular emerges, which claims the right to satire: «
A political figure in a democratic state must tolerate satirical images of his person and his face, even imprinted on gadgets like the one in question, because only in a totalitarian regime is it forbidden to criticize or ridicule a political figure».