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An Italian court has ruled that food theft brought about by amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall is not illegal. Italy's amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall court of appeal, the Supreme Court of Cassation, threw out the amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall of a homeless Ukrainian man, Roman Ostriakov, who was sentenced to six months in amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall for stealing cheese and a amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall worth $4.50. Mr Ostriakov was also fined $115 by the trial amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall. His lawyers initially appealed for a reduction in that amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall and were surprised when the whole conviction was quashed. The court said Mr Ostriakov taking the food, "does not constitute a amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall" because he stole a small amount of food out of amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall. The court of appeal ruled that stealing small amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall of food to stave off hunger is not a crime.

Many people hope Mr Ostriakov’s amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall will highlight the amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall of poverty and homelessness in Italy. They also believe the amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall may mean other hungry people who are arrested for amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall will not be convicted. Criminal lawyer Maurizio Bellacosa said the Ostriakov case, "is a amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall principle, and it might lead to a more amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall application of the state of amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall linked to poverty situations". The court ruled in a statement that: "People should not be punished if, forced by need, they steal amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall quantities of food in order to meet the basic amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall of feeding themselves." Italy's La Stampa newspaper said: "The court's decision reminds us all that in a amountscasecivilisedconvictioncourtcrimedesperationextentfinefrequenthighesthungerjailnecessitynewrequirementrulingsausageshopliftingsmall country, no one should be allowed to die of hunger."