Italy: Theft of sausage and cheese 'not a crime'

Italy’s highest court has ruled that the theft of a sausage and piece of cheese  by a homeless man in 2011 did not constitute a crime because he was in desperate need of nourishment The high court judges in the court of cassation found that Roman Ostriakov, a young homeless man who had bought a bag of breadsticks from a supermarket but had slipped a wurstel – a small sausage – and cheese into his pocket had acted out of an immediate need and therefore had not committed a crime