Italy Makes Stealing Food Legal For Hungry Poor

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Italy has ruled that stealing small amounts of food, if you desperately need it, is not a criminal offense. A man who stole food in 2011 was convicted of a crime but then later the conviction was reversed by the highest court in the nation. "Stealing is not a crime, ruled Italy’s highest court this week — when small amounts of food are taken in desperate need.

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAgr8Yo91I .

The ruling was in the case a homeless man named Roman Ostriakov, who in 2011 was caught stealing a sausage and some cheese from a Genoa supermarket.

Ostriakov had hidden the goods, worth about $4.50, under his jacket as he paid for breadsticks. He was arrested after a customer informed the store’s security of the theft; and in 2013, he was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail.

This week, however, the Supreme Court of Cassation overturned Ostriakov’s theft conviction, ruling that stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime. The case has drawn comparisons to the story of Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.”

“The condition of the defendant, and the circumstances in which the seizure of merchandise took place, prove that he took possession of that small amount of food in the face of an immediate and essential need for nourishment, acting therefore in a state of necessity,” said the court, according CNN.”

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<p>The six months spent in jail he would have been well fed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>May have made small wages, and the system could have provided him an alternative upon his release.</p>
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<p>In the situation he was in at the moment of stealing, &nbsp;he would&nbsp;</p>
<p>Have had to keep stealing everyday to survive.&nbsp;</p>

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Mmmmmmm.not sure what happened there 😁

[esayaf]

There you go. World hunger can be solved by incarceration of every one

[282eecb2b518b00a18f5b4fde8ac47aa1461997566]

Not everyone,  just poor thieves. 

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In Italy 

Spoiler

[fo-trut]

and 13 year old girl arrested for paying for her lunch with a 2 dollar bill that people thought was fake, but wasn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfOua_ib1Qw

Welcome to another brilliant way our public schools are working on that school-to-prison pipeline in this country: charging middle schoolers with forgery if they unknowingly pay for school lunch with a fake bill (or, a real bill the lunch lady assumes is fake)

What is the world coming to?

[womblewa]

Not in the same vein as op. shops who display big signs saying people stealing will be prosecuted, we need to be kinder, more generous, more understanding.  There will always be people who rip other people off, and there will always people who never ever would and just need a hand. 

You would like to think that an op. shop or the courts, or the police etc.. should err on the side of BELIEVING that a woman (or man) who steals childrens clothing, rather than stuff for themselves, or similar items is doing it because they are desperate, and bring those people a bag and say fill it up, no charge, take what you need. 

I know some people rip charity shops off, but an awful lot dont, and these days there are definitely families who need the approach - you need a bit of help?  Here it is.  No strings, and would you like some blankets as well?

Sometimes you do have to wonder how us humans lost such so darned much of our humanity.   Have we just become so absolutely transfixed with the possibility that we might be ripped off, that we dont risk it?

[chameleon54]

Part of the problem is that there are too many people who could look after themselves bludging off of the system. This gives the genuine cases a bad name, with everyone labled as bludgers.

The same thing has occured with asylum seekers. With ecenomic refugees gaming the system to gain entry to Australia illegaly, the genuine people fleeing despots and cruel regimes are lumped in with the ecenomic migrants in detention centres for years. 

The PC brigade refuse to accept that there is a problem howling down anyone who dares to point it out. This just exacerbates the issue, rather than helping and the majority of the population are just fed up with it all. Add to this the proliferation of charities for all manner of obscure causes constantly seeking donations and many people have unfortunately become compassion fatigued.

[esayaf]

Shoot them all and let God sort them out. Then we won't have to accidentally judge any one, bludgers or not.