The former prefect of Apsa, Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani, has passed away at the age of 92. This cardinal, who came from a diplomatic career and was of Margigian origin, was convicted in 2013 for defamation for having accused an Italian magistrate who had opened a proceeding on the health damage caused by the electromagnetic waves of the Vatican Radio's maxi antennas in Santa Maria di Galeria.
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In a 2007 interview, Sebastiani defamed the former prosecutor of Civitavecchia. For this, he was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay compensation of 25,000 euros. The decision was made by the Perugia court. The cardinal, speaking with a newspaper six years prior, stated that the issue of electromagnetic pollution was a 'false problem', further pushed by an 'assaulting magistrate' named Gianfranco Amendola to denigrate Vatican Radio. The prosecutor, who was territorially competent to deal with the debated case, had asked for an 8-month prison sentence for the cardinal, while the civil party had requested compensation of 300,000 euros for moral and material damages and a provisional sum of at least 50,000 euros.
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In the motivation of the sentence, the Umbrian single judge wrote that 'to assert, in clear terms, the falsity of the problem related to the emission' by Vatican Radio of electromagnetic waves placed the statement itself beyond the limits of evaluation, causing it to fall 'into the manipulation of reality instrumentally aimed at denigrating the work of the subject who was dealing with that very judicial matter'. For the magistrate, it was actually a real problem demonstrated by the many complaints filed by the citizens of the areas affected by the emissions, by the media resonance that the case had, as well as by the very fact 'that - he wrote - numerous trials have taken place: circumstances that allow us to affirm with certainty that the existence of the problem 'electromagnetic emissions'.
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Pope Francis, who attended his funeral at St. Peter's, described him in a telegram to the family as a 'zealous priest who generously spent his life in the service of the Gospel and the Holy See; a good and vigilant servant of the Lord'. The cardinal had been made a cardinal by St. John Paul II, in the consistory of February 22, 2001, he was born on April 11, 1931, in Montemonaco, in the diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto. In the curia, at the head of Apsa, he played a leading role as secretary general of the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
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